If I can hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Hope
The Testing Time is Coming – DL Moody
There is no one beyond the reach of the tempter. Keep that in mind. Life may run smoothly for a while, but the testing time is coming.
– DL Moody –
Sons and Daughters of God – Hugh Binning
Is there any privilege so precious as this, to be the sons of God (1 John 3:2)? What are all the relations, or states, or conditions to this one, to be the children of the Highest? It was David’s question, “Should I be the king’s son-in-law?” Alas! What a petty and poor dignity compared with this, to be the sons of God, partakers of a divine nature!
– Hugh Binning –
from the book Christian Love
1627-1653
Led Into the Wilderness – FB Meyer
The Lord himself was led up into the wilderness. And in one form or another, every soul who has done a great work in the world has passed through similar periods of obscurity, suffering, disappointment, or solitude.
– FB Meyer –
Your Support and Comfort for Affliction – Brother Lawrence
Continue, then, always with God; it is the only support and comfort for your affliction.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
Have a Prospect of the Journey’s End – Matthew Henry
It is pleasant in a journey to have a prospect of the journey’s end—to see that the way we are in leads directly to it, and to see that it cannot be far off; every step we take is so much nearer it, nay, and we are within a few steps of it we have a prospect of being shortly with Christ in Paradise; yet a little while, and we shall be at home, we shall be at rest, and whatever difficulties we may meet with in our way, when we come to heaven all will be well—eternally well.
– Matthew Henry –
from The Pleasantness of a Religious Life, 1714
What is the Greatest Sin? – William Bridge
What is the great sin, the fountain sin, the head of all your sins, but unbelief?
– William Bridge –
from A Lifting Up For The Downcast, 1649
Mercies Are Savory When They Savor a Savior – Ralph Venning
Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savory as when they savor of a savior.
– Ralph Venning –
1621-1673 AD
Talk of God’s Goodness – Charles Spurgeon
If you abundantly talk of God’s goodness, you are sure to benefit your neighbors. Many are comforted when they hear of God’s goodness to their friends.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from Spurgeon on Praise