Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that’ll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
Bare heights of loneliness…a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be troubled,Neither let it be afraid.
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.
All life’s training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don’t grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful…We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts’ desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.
The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.
He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much.
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are–he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
Strength of my heart, I need not fail,Not mind to fear but to obey,With such a Leader, who could quail?Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,Fulfil Thy purposes through me.
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.
The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say–with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.
If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord,For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.