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Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
You can't get to second base keeping one foot on first.
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.
Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.
If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.
Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.