Divine Wisdom

~ God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

~ The weakest saint may Satan rout, who meet him with a praiseful shout.

~ Have you been waiting upon God, dear troubled one, during long nights and weary days, and have feared that you were forgotten? Nay, lift up your head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance which is on its way to you.

~ An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed; knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready

~ There is always a large balance to our credit in the bank of heaven waiting for our exercise of faith in drawing it. Draw heavily upon His resources.

~ Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with the reasonable request: “Do as Thou has said,” The Creator will not cheat His creature who depends upon His truth; and far more, the heavenly Father will not break His word to His own child.

~ When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

~ “Oh, restless heart, that beat against your prison bars of circumstances, yearning for a wider sphere of usefulness, leave God to order all your days. Patience and trust, in the dullness of the routine of life, will be the best preparation for a courageous bearing of the tug and strain of the larger opportunity which God may sometime send you.”

~ Bring Christ’s Word – Christ’s promise, and Christ’s sacrifice – His blood, with thee, and not one of heaven’s blessing can be denied thee.

~ In the sorest trials God often makes the sweetest discoveries of Himself.

~ Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. God hath many sharp-cutting instruments, and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves, and means to make the most resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon.

~ I bear my willing witness that I owe more to the fire, and the hammer, and the file, than to anything else in my Lord’s workshop. I sometimes question whether I have ever learned anything except through the rod. When my schoolroom is darkened, I see most.