It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
Interpretation
Begin your day with spiritual reflection before engaging with others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of starting the day with a moment of reverence or contemplation, suggesting that one should connect with a higher power or spiritual source before engaging with the world and the people in it. By looking into the 'face of God,' it encourages reflection and groundedness, which can help cultivate a more positive and thoughtful interaction with others.
In practice
During a morning meeting, you might share this quote to emphasize the need for mindfulness.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
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