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He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

The grave has a door on its inner side.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.

The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself
are identical.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

Don't waste your sorrows

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.