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The surrender of all our powers to God greatly simplifies the problem of life. It weakens and cuts short a thousand struggles with the passions of the natural heart. -- My Life Today, p. 6. The Great Physician has a remedy for every ill. He understands your case. Whatever may have been your errors, He knows how to deal with them. Will you not trust yourself to Him? -- My Life Today, p. 7. It is faith that connects us with heaven, and brings us strength for coping with the powers of darkness. In Christ, God has provided means for subduing every evil trait, and resisting every temptation, however strong. -- My Life Today, p. 9. God will do great things for His people when they put their entire trust in Him. -- My Life Today, p. 9. He never becomes confused. He sits above the confusion and distractions of the earth, and all things are opened to His divine survey; and from His great and calm eternity He can order that which His providence sees is best. -- My Life Today, p. 10. But the touch of faith opens to us the divine treasure house of power and wisdom; and thus, through instruments of clay, God accomplishes the wonders of His grace. -- My Life Today, p. 13. When we learn to walk by faith and not by feeling, we shall have help from God just when we need it, and His peace will come into our hearts. -- My Life Today, p. 14. It is a part of God's plan to grant us, in answer to the prayer of faith, that which He would not bestow did we not thus ask. -- My Life Today, p. 15. When engaged in our daily labor, we may breathe out our heart's desire, inaudible to any human ear; but that word cannot die away into silence, nor can it be lost. . . . It is God to whom we are speaking, and our prayer is heard. -- My Life Today, p. 16. Tell Jesus everything. Lay open before Him the secrets of your heart; for His eye searches the inmost recesses of the soul, and He reads your thoughts as an open book. When you have asked for the things that are necessary for your soul's good, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. -- My Life Today, p. 16. If you will find voice and time to pray, God will find time and voice to answer. -- My Life Today, p. 16. The opening of our hearts to our heavenly Father, the acknowledgment of our entire dependence, the expression of our wants, the homage of grateful love--this is true prayer. -- My Life Today, p. 18. The greatest victories to the church of Christ or to the individual Christian . . . are those victories that are gained in the audience chamber with God, when earnest, agonizing faith lays hold upon the mighty arm of power. -- My Life Today, p. 18. By your fervent prayers of faith you can move the arm that moves the world. -- My Life Today, p. 21. We have a Guidebook, the Word of God, and we are inexcusable if we miss the way to heaven, for plain directions have been given us. -- My Life Today, p. 25. Prayer is communion with God, the fountain of wisdom, the source of strength and peace and happiness. -- My Life Today, p. 31. God does not ask us to do in our own strength the work before us. He has provided divine assistance for all the emergencies to which our human resources are unequal. He gives the Holy Spirit to help in every strait, to strengthen our hope and assurance, to illuminate our minds and purify our hearts. -- My Life Today, p. 37. Christ has made every provision for us to be strong. He has given us His Holy Spirit, whose office is to bring to our remembrance all the promises that Christ has made, that we may have peace and a sweet sense of forgiveness. -- My Life Today, p. 45. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given His Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil and to impress His own character on His church. -- My Life Today, p. 46. When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, it transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the joy of heaven. -- My Life Today, p. 46. The Holy Spirit is the breath of spiritual life in the soul. The impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the life of Christ. It imbues the receiver with the attributes of Christ. -- My Life Today, p. 46. The religion that comes from God is the only religion that will lead to God. In order to serve Him aright, we must be born of the divine Spirit. This will purify the heart and renew the mind, giving us a new capacity for knowing and loving God. -- My Life Today, p. 46. The Lord has determined that every soul who obeys His word shall have His joy, His peace, His continual keeping power. -- My Life Today, p. 51. Love is the law of Christ's kingdom. -- My Life Today, p. 52. Forbearance and unselfishness mark the words and deeds of those who are born again to live the new life in Christ. -- My Life Today, p. 52. The perfect fruit of faith, meekness, and love often matures best amid storm clouds and darkness. -- My Life Today, p. 56. Promise after promise is given, assuring us of the fullness of power that God has, and yet we are so weak in faith that we do not grasp the power. . . . We need to seek for a faith that will lay hold of the arm of Jehovah. -- My Life Today, p. 57. The more closely believers have walked with God, the more clearly and powerfully have they testified of their Redeemer's love and of His saving grace. -- My Life Today, p. 59. As the tempest leaves unharmed the lowly flower of the valley, while it uproots the stately tree upon the mountaintop, so those who have maintained their integrity in humble life may be dragged down to the pit by the temptations that assail worldly success and honor. -- My Life Today, p. 66. God's abounding love and presence in the heart will give the power of self-control and will mold and fashion the mind and character. -- My Life Today, p. 70. Whatever God's Word condemns, that reject even though the whole world adopt and advocate it. -- My Life Today, p. 71. A house with love in it, where love is expressed in words and looks and deeds, is a place where angels love to manifest their presence and hallow the scene by rays of light from glory. -- My Life Today, p. 84. The great God whose glory shines from the heavens, and whose divine hand upholds millions of worlds, is our Father. We have only to love Him, trust in Him, as little children in faith and confidence, and He will accept us as His sons and daughters, and we shall be heirs to all the inexpressible glory of the eternal world. -- My Life Today, p. 86. The very trial that taxes our faith the most severely and makes it seem as though God had forsaken us is to lead us more closely to Him, that we may lay all our burdens at the feet of Christ and experience the peace which He will give us in exchange. -- My Life Today, p. 93. Grace is an attribute of God shown to undeserving human beings. We did not seek after it, but it was sent in search of us. God rejoices to bestow this grace on everyone who hungers for it, not because we are worthy, but because we are so utterly unworthy. -- My Life Today, p. 100. Spiritual growth depends upon giving to others the light that God has given to you. -- My Life Today, p. 103. The treasures of grace are absolutely unlimited. -- My Life Today, p. 103. Growth in grace will not lead you to be proud, self-confident, and boastful, but will make you more conscious of your own nothingness, of your entire dependence upon the Lord. -- My Life Today, p. 104. In the natural world God has placed in the hands of the children of men the key to unlock the treasure house of His Word. The unseen is illustrated by the seen; divine wisdom, eternal truth, infinite grace, are understood by the things that God has made. -- My Life Today, p. 112. Nature is God's physician. The pure air, the glad sunshine, the beautiful flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards, and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings are health giving--the elixir of life. -- My Life Today, p. 135. As we come close to the heart of nature, Christ makes His presence real to us and speaks to our hearts of His peace and love. -- My Life Today, p. 140. Before sin created the need, God had provided the remedy. Every soul that yields to temptation is wounded, bruised, by the adversary; but wherever there is sin, there is the Saviour. -- My Life Today, p. 155. That heart is the happiest that has Christ as an abiding guest. -- My Life Today, p. 157. Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the happiest people in the world. -- My Life Today, p. 161. Words of kindness, looks of sympathy, expression of appreciation, would to many a struggling, lonely one be as a cup of cold water to a thirsty soul. . . . It is in unselfish ministry that true happiness is found. -- My Life Today, p. 165. The spirit of unselfish labor for others gives depth, stability, and Christlike loveliness to the character and brings peace and happiness to its possessor. -- My Life Today, p. 165. Tell the precious story of God's love for man. In this work you will find a satisfaction that will last through the eternal ages. -- My Life Today, p. 170. The little attentions, the small acts of love and self-sacrifice, that flow out from the life as quietly as the fragrance from a flower--these constitute no small share of the blessings and happiness of life. -- My Life Today, p. 172. Nature's ten thousand voices speak His praise. In earth, and air, and sky, with their marvelous tint and color, varying in gorgeous contrast or softly blended in harmony, we behold His glory. . . . All the brightness and beauty that adorn the earth and light up the heavens speak of God. -- My Life Today, p. 175. The soul consecrated to the service of Christ has a peace that the world cannot give or take away. -- My Life Today, p. 176. Let the songs of the birds and the beauties of nature awaken holy and grateful feelings in your hearts and lead you to adore your Creator who has anticipated your wants and surrounded you with unnumbered tokens of His love and constant care. -- My Life Today, p. 177. Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul. -- My Life Today, p. 179. God requires us to yield our own will to His; but He does not ask us to give up anything that it would be for our good to retain. No one can be happy while he devotes his live to selfish gratification. -- My Life Today, p. 180. Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning. In every difficulty He has His way prepared to bring relief. Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing. -- My Life Today, p. 181. Those who take Christ at His Word and surrender the soul to His keeping, their lives to His ordering, will find peace and quietude. Nothing of the world can make them sad when Jesus makes them glad by His presence. -- My Life Today, p. 181. When trials and tribulations come to you know that they are sent in order that you may receive from the Lord of glory renewed strength and increased humility, so that He may safely bless and support and uphold you. -- My Life Today, p. 185. If we will love one another as Christ has loved us, the barriers that separate us from God and from one another will be broken down, and many obstacles that hinder the Holy Spirit's flowing from heart to heart will be removed. -- My Life Today, p. 185. All our sufferings and sorrows, all our temptations and trials, all our sadness and griefs, all our persecutions and privations, and in short all things, work together for our good. . . . All experiences and circumstances are God's workmen whereby good is brought to us. -- My Life Today, p. 185. Our happiness comes not from what is around us, but from what is within us; not from what we have, but from what we are. -- My Life Today, p. 185. Christ came to break down every wall of partition. He came to show that His gift of mercy and love is as unconfined as the air, the light, or the showers of rain that refresh the earth. -- My Life Today, p. 188. Seize upon every opportunity for contributing to the happiness of those around you. . . . True joy can be found only in unselfish service. -- My Life Today, p. 202. Let all who visit Christians see that the hour of prayer is the most precious, the most sacred, and the happiest hour of the day. -- My Life Today, p. 203. The true principles of Christianity open before all a source of happiness, the height and depth, the length and breadth of which are immeasurable. -- My Life Today, p. 211. As we continue to impart, we shall continue to receive; and the more we impart, the more we shall receive. -- My Life Today, p. 223. He showed that our neighbor does not mean merely one of the church or faith to which we belong. It has no reference to race, color, or class distinction. Our neighbor is every person who needs our help. Our neighbor is every soul who is wounded and bruised by the adversary. -- My Life Today, p. 232. Every act of love, every word of kindness, every prayer in behalf of the suffering and oppressed, is reported before the eternal throne and placed on heaven's imperishable record. -- My Life Today, p. 237. However short our service or humble our work, if in simple faith we follow Christ, we shall not be disappointed of the reward. That which even the greatest and wisest cannot earn, the weakest and most humble may receive. -- My Life Today, p. 247. The sanctification set forth in the Sacred Scriptures has to do with the entire being--spirit, soul, and body. Here is the true idea of entire consecration. -- My Life Today, p. 248. Happy feelings or the absence of joy is no evidence that a person is or is not sanctified. Genuine sanctification . . . is nothing less than a daily dying to self and daily conformity to the will of God. -- My Life Today, p. 248. When it is in the heart to obey God, when efforts are put forth to this end, Jesus accepts this disposition and effort as man's best service, and He makes up for the deficiency with His own divine merit. -- My Life Today, p. 250. The gate of heaven has been left ajar, and the radiance from the throne of God shines into the hearts of those who love Him, even though they dwell in this sin-cursed earth. -- My Life Today, p. 260. Christ crucified, Christ our righteousness, wins the heart and brings it to repentance. This theme is so simple that children can grasp it, the wise and learned are charmed with it, while they behold it in its depths of wisdom, love, and power which they can never fathom. -- My Life Today, p. 265. God is a lover of the beautiful, but that which He most loves is a beautiful character. . . . It is beauty of character that shall not perish, but last through the ceaseless ages of eternity. -- My Life Today, p. 270. As the sunbeam imparts to the flowers their varied and delicate tints, so does God impart to the soul the beauty of His own character. -- My Life Today, p. 270. God's children are never absent from His mind. -- My Life Today, p. 270. Christ came to the earth and stood before the children of men with the hoarded love of eternity, and this is the treasure that, through our connection with Him, we are to receive, to reveal, and to impart. -- My Life Today, p. 270. When we submit ourselves to Christ, the heart is united with His heart, the will is merged in His will, the mind becomes one with His mind, the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; we live His life. This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. -- My Life Today, p. 272. It is by beholding His love, by dwelling upon it, by drinking it in, that we are to become partakers of His nature. What food is to the body, Christ must be to the soul. -- My Life Today, p. 275. It is not enough even that we believe on Christ for the forgiveness of sin; we must by faith be constantly receiving spiritual strength and nourishment from Him through His word. -- My Life Today, p. 275. Nothing so manifestly weakens a church as disunion and strife. Nothing so wars against Christ and the truth as this spirit. -- My Life Today, p. 276. Humility and reverence should characterize the deportment of all who come into the presence of God. In the name of Jesus we may come before Him with confidence, but we must not approach Him with the boldness of presumption, as though He were on a level with ourselves. -- My Life Today, p. 281. Not a sparrow, He said, falls to the ground without the notice of our heavenly Father. And if the little sparrow is regarded by Him, surely the souls of those for whom Christ has died are precious in His sight. The value of man, the estimate God places upon him, is revealed in the cross of Calvary. -- My Life Today, p. 292. Look at the wonderful and beautiful things of nature. Think of their marvelous adaptation to the needs and happiness, not only of man, but of all living creatures. The sunshine and the rain, that gladden and refresh the earth, the hills and seas and plains, all speak to us of the Creator's love. -- My Life Today, p. 294. He is watching over you, trembling child of God. Are you tempted? He will deliver. Are you weak? He will strengthen. Are you ignorant? He will enlighten. Are you wounded? He will heal. -- My Life Today, p. 297. Whatever your anxieties and trials, spread out your case before the Lord. . . . The weaker and more helpless you know yourself to be, the stronger will you become in His strength. The heavier your burdens, the more blessed the rest in casting them upon your Burden Bearer. -- My Life Today, p. 297. When temptations and trials rush in upon us, let us go to God, and agonize with Him in prayer. He will not turn us away empty, but will give us grace and strength to overcome, and to break the power of the enemy. -- My Life Today, p. 309. If we will look to Jesus as the One in whom we may trust, He will never fail us in any emergency. -- My Life Today, p. 316. Christ has power from His Father to give His divine grace and strength to man, making it possible for him through His name to overcome. -- My Life Today, p. 317. His heart of divine love and sympathy is drawn out most of all for the one who is the most hopelessly entangled in the snares of the enemy. With His own blood He has signed the emancipation papers of the race. -- My Life Today, p. 317. Satan trembles and flees before the weakest soul who finds refuge in that mighty name. -- My Life Today, p. 324. The simplicity, the self-forgetfulness, and the confiding love of a little child are the attributes that Heaven values. These are the characteristics of real greatness. -- My Life Today, p. 332. It is impossible for any mind to comprehend all the richness and greatness of even one promise of God. -- My Life Today, p. 337. Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. The longer we are in the heaven of bliss, the more and still more of glory will be opened to us; and the more we know of God, the more intense will be our happiness. -- My Life Today, p. 365. And what is the happiness of heaven but to see God? What greater joy could come to the sinner saved by the grace of Christ than to look upon the face of God and know Him as Father? -- My Life Today, p. 365. |