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Don't waste your sorrows
Faith is the sight of the inward eye.
The grave has a door on its inner side.
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.