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Let us remember that Elijah's God was with him only while he was occupied in noble and effectual services. When thus engaged, he exulted in the conscious majesty of a life which had upon it the stamp and signature of Divine power.— filed under Action
Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul.— filed under Amusement
It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to God, and a heart in which the love of money has cashiered all sense of God - His love, His presence, His glory; and which is no sooner relieved from the mockery of a tedious round of religious formalism, than it reverts to the sanctuaries where its wealth is invested, with an intenseness of homage surpassing that of the most devout Israelite who ever, from a foreign land, turned his longing eyes toward Jerusalem.— filed under Avarice
Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character.— filed under Character
"Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end." Often had they been faithless; and now, while addressing them, He knows that they will all in a few hours forsake Him. Yet He trusts them; He commits His cause to their keeping. And we must love as He loved.— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
But no sympathy reached His convulsed spirit. He was alone; alone, enduring the curse for us; alone, "bearing our sins in His own body on the tree," and exhausting the fierceness of eternal justice; alone, without succor from man; alone, without one strengthening whisper from angel; above all, alone, without one ray from His Father's countenance. And that expiring cry, "My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken me?" was the bitter, dreary, dismal, piercing wail of a soul utterly deserted - wrapped, shrouded in essential unmitigated desolation.— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
- Yes, we have throned Him in our minds and hearts the cynosure of our wandering thoughts - the monarch of our warmest affections, hopes, desires. This we have done. And the more we meditate upon His astonishing love, His amazing sacrifice, the more we feel that if we had a thousand minds, hearts, souls, we would crown Him Lord of all. Living we will live in Him, for Him, to Him. Dying, we will clasp Him in our arms, and, with Simeon, welcome death as the consummation of bliss.— filed under Christ the King
What will you do with Jesus? Do with Him did I say? O what, what will you do without Him? What, when affliction and anguish shall come upon you? what, when closing your eyelids in death? what, when appearing before the awful judgment-seat?— filed under Christ's Fullness
He is wisdom for your ignorance, strength for your weakness, righteousness for your guilt, sanctification for your corruption, redemption from all the thralldom of your apostasy.— filed under Christ's Fullness
Now and always as in that morning twilight on the Galilean lake Christ comes to men. Everywhere He is present, everywhere revealing Himself. Now, as then, our eyes are holden by our own fault, so that we recognize not the merciful Presence which is all around us. Now, as then, it is they who are nearest to Christ by love who see Him first. Still Jesus joins Himself to us; still He walks with us; still He instructs us, speaking to us by His word, His providences, His Spirit; still He seeks to enter into our sorrows and trials, and to console and cheer us. But we know Him not. Our eyes are holden by unbelief. We do not press Him to abide with us. Hence He is grieved, and we are left alone in the night.— filed under Christ's Presence
It is when we unbosom ourselves to Him, and confide to Him all our cares and sorrows and temptations, that He walks with us, and abides with us, and opens to us the Scriptures concerning Himself - His dignity, His suitableness, His loveliness, His truth, His tenderness, His faithfulness, revealing Himself in us; causing our hearts to burn within us - to burn with love, gratitude, devotion, courage, joy - to burn with a celestial fire, which consumes all selfishness and sin, and glows, a pure, perennial flame, upon pure, living altars.— filed under Christ's Presence
A Christian is a man in Christ. If any man be in Christ." A Christian is a man for Christ. "Glorify God in your body and spirit which are God's."— filed under Christians
Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.— filed under Christian Life
Your salvation is His business; make His service your business and delight.— filed under Christian Service
To-day, let us rise and go to our work. To-morrow, we shall rise and go to our reward.— filed under Christian Service
O, cross of my bleeding Lord, may I meditate on thee more, may I feel thee more, may I resolve to know nothing but thee.— filed under Death
O for less of an abstract, controversial Christianity, and more of a living, loving, personal Christ.— filed under Denying Christ
Brethren, life is passing; youth goes, strength decays. But duty performed, work done for God - this abides forever, this alone is imperishable.— filed under Duty
Saving faith is confidence in Jesus; a direct, confidential transaction with Him.— filed under Faith In Christ
O, for a living faith in a living Redeemer!— filed under Faith In Christ
The greatest truths are ever known through the heart; and this sublimest of all truths, the amazing sacrifice which Eternal Love has made for guilty man, can be comprehended only by the heart, - by communion with that Love in its sorrows, sacrifices, triumphs, joys.— filed under Fellowship With Christ And God
The oblation of the cross is perpetuated, carried on - not materially, but spiritually - in every heart, in every life which is consecrated to a crucified Jesus and to His suffering cause.— filed under Fellowship With Christ And God
In our weakness, His strength is ours. In our conflicts, His victories are ours. In our bereavements and sorrows, His grace is ours. He had not where to lay His weary head, that we might have His bosom on which to lean our fevered brows. He endured the cross, and despised the shame, that, instead of weeping and wailing, we might share His immortal blessedness. -— filed under Fellowship With Christ And God
When we come to tell the completed story of our lives, we shall have to record the fulfillment of all God's promises, and the accomplishment of all our prayers that were built on them. God's truth and faithfulness "are a great deep." They resemble the ocean itself; always there - vast, fathomless, sublime, the same in its majesty, its inexhaustible fullness, yesterday, to-day, and forever; the same in calm and storm, by day and by night; changeless while generations come and pass; everlasting while ages are rolling away.— filed under God's Fatherhood
An immortality of pain and tears; an infinity of wretchedness and despair; the blackness of darkness across which conscience will forever shoot her clear and ghastly flashes, -like lightning streaming over a desert when midnight and tempest are there; weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; long, long eternity, and things that will make eternity seem longer,making each moment seem eternity, - oh, miserable condition of the damned!— filed under Hell
The calm, tranquil energy of the Redeemer's soul; the deep strength of principle which nothing could shake; the serene courage which looked down upon menaces, clamor, contumely, sacrifice, death, - this is the temper which pours contempt upon the intrepidity of heroes, but which the Holy Spirit infuses into the humble Christian.— filed under Heroism
The narrow way, the way of holiness, not only leads to life, but it is life. Walking there, serene are our days, peaceful our nights, happy-high above the disorders and miseries of a wretched world-shall be our hourly communion with God; happy - full of assurance, of calm and sacred triumph, shall be our dying hour.— filed under Holiness
Rejoice evermore in your Redeemer,- in His truth - His person His almighty grace - His everlasting faithfulness - His precious blood whose efficacy reaches farther than the eye of your conscience ever penetrated, and cleanses you from a sinfulness more inveterate than you have ever conceived to be yours.— filed under Joy
Winds, storms, tempests, thunders, lightnings, raging flames, dissolving elements, the archangel's trump smiting the silence of the tomb, the universal air blazing with disastrous splendors, "the tribes of the earth mourning and beating their breasts," the wicked calling on rocks and hills to fall upon them and cover them, the shouts of the saved, the howlings of the damned - all, all will then utter one voice, all will pierce our very souls with their tones; all will repeat these words, "God alone is great, and God's salvation alone deserved the cares, toils, sacrifices of an immortal spirit."— filed under Judgment-Day
We are all approaching that dread tribunal. However diversified our paths, they all converge toward that common centre. The young, with their elastic tread, are striding to the judgment; the old, with their tottering limbs are creeping to the judgment; the rich in their splendid equipages are driving to the judgment; the poor, in rags and barefooted, are walking to the judgment. The Christian making God's statutes his song, is a pilgrim to the judgment; the sinner, treading upon the mercy of Jesus, and trampling upon His blood, is hastening to the judgment. "We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ."— filed under Judgment-Day
True religion is not what men see and admire; it is what God sees and loves; the faith which clings to Jesus in the darkest hour; the sanctity which shrinks from the approach of evil; the humility which lies low at the feet of the Redeemer, and washes them with tears; the love which welcomes every sacrifice; the cheerful consecration of all the powers of the soul; the worship which, rising above all outward forms, ascends to God in the sweetest, dearest communion - a worship often too deep for utterance, and than which the highest heaven knows nothing more sublime.— filed under Religion
We have communion in Christ's sufferings as we die with Him unto self, and rise with Him to our proper life - the life of selfsurrender to the will of God.— filed under Self-Surrender
Every burning tear, every harrowing fear, every festering grief, every corroding care, every shooting pain, every piercing remorse; the sighs and moans of lazar-houses reeking with putrefaction and death; the shrieks and wails and clanking chains in hospitals swarming with maniacs; and the curses and blasphemies of dungeons where guilt rots and raves - these, all these, are but feeble reverberations of those dismal truths, "Sin reigns unto death.” “Death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."— filed under Sin
In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth - so much money.— filed under Worth
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.— filed under Cheerfulness
Christians are called saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethern, for their love; disciples, for their knowledge.— filed under Christians
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. .— filed under Literature
Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.— filed under Repentance