No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we a...
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I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
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Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for good in the end, will not cov...
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Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the s...
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It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.
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Show me the person ready to step from any, let it be the narrowest, sect of Christian Pharisees into a freer and holier air, and I shall look to find ...
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O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the recoil of my word's airy rippleMy heart unheedful...
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Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.
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It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, wh...
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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but...
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My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.
