Occupation: Author Birth: April 8, 1847 Death: March 28, 1929
Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances..
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!.
This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time….
There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he fi….
God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to p….
If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?.
I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should re….
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer..
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy..
Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up in….
We never get so near God as when we plead for others..
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper..
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise..
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- a….
Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but ….
When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Neve….
Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God..
There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to p….
Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear….
Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest..
God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world..