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God's Guidance: Quotations from Burning Words
Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy powerful hand; Bread of heaven! Feed me till I want no more.— W. WILLIAMS
"I will guide thee with mine eye "- a glance, not a blow a look of directing love that at once heartens to duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look, and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we must be swift to obey.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN
Whosoever is really earnest for Divine direction, more anxious to know what the Lord would have him do than to know what is for his own present ease or worldly interest, and who confides the case to Him who giveth wisdom liberally, and upbraideth not, may count on it very confidently that the Lord will send forth His light.— JAMES HAMILTON
If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Holy Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.— CHARLES KINGSLEY
As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.— T. L. CUYLER
As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.— FENELON
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.— JOHN RUSKIN
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night. Lead me, O Lord, till perfect day shall shine Through peace to light! The Christian will sometimes be brought to walk in a solitary path. God seems to cut away his props, that He may reduce him to Himself. His religion is to be felt as a personal, particular, appropriate possession. He is to feel, that, as there is but one Jehovah to bless, so there seems to him as though there were but one penitent in the universe to be blessed by Him.— RICHARD CECIL
"My Father, it is dark!" "Child, take my hand, Cling close to me; I'll lead thee through the land, Trust my all-seeing care, so shalt thou stand 'Midst glory bright above." Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?— FENELON
When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, "If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."— RUTHERFORD
Lead, kindly Light! amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on ; The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on; Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.— JOHN H. NEWMAN
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults. O, shall I ever learn The lesson grand,— CHARLES KINGSLEY
That I should never spurn The offered hand Reached out to guide my way Through life's dark land ?— MRS. N. A. HOLT
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.— Wm. MOUNTFORD
My faith is, that there is a greater amount of revelation given to guide each man by the principles laid down in the Bible, by conscience, and by providence, than most men are aware of. It is not the light which is defective, it is an eye to see it.— NORMAN MACLEOD
Show me what I have to do, Every hour my strength renew ; Let me live a life of faith, Let me die Thy people's death. Guide us, Love, Peace, and Grace! Guide us divinest Light!— NEWTON
Through all our work and care and woe; Through all the dizzy joys we know, Through the "dark valley" where we go, Guide us Love's dearest light, To-day, to-night. Like His emblem the sun, He has a fullness of light in Himself. Were a thousand million more creatures to crowd the earth, that sun has light and heat for them all; and in God there is a fullness of good infinitely greater than the whole creation or the most capacious of His creatures can require. He is a sun and shield; He will give grace and glory; "no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable - not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity - the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.— JOHN RUSKIN