Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
Interpretation
Seek daily comfort and guidance through your faith.
This quote emphasizes the importance of regularly engaging with one's spirituality to find solace and inspiration in the teachings of God. It suggests that every day should include a moment of reflection or connection that brings comfort to the soul, underscoring the notion that spiritual nourishment is essential for a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a sermon about finding peace in God's words, the pastor quoted John Knox to inspire the congregation.
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
A man with God is always in the majority.
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Prayer unites the soul to God.
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
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