Character and Conduct – 16 October – Morbid Introspectiveness
If we esteem our obedience to rule, and self-imposed restraints, for their own sake, we effectually destroy their power to train and elevate.
If we esteem our obedience to rule, and self-imposed restraints, for their own sake, we effectually destroy their power to train and elevate.
AND be you sure that sorrow without resolute effort at amendment is one of the most contemptible of all human frailties;
Resolves…
To watch over a growing habit of uncharitable judgment
Speak, act, work quietly, as though you were praying, as indeed you ought to be.
We cannot hold on to the blessings of Christ if our hands are wrapped around something, anything, else.
We will not enter into the joy of our Father if we continue to seek fulfilment in the things of this world.
PRAY, till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
IT IS abundantly clear that answered prayer encourages faith and personal relations in a way which broad principles only cannot effect.
I cannot help [praying for special things], any more than a child in the dark can help calling for its mother.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
WE DO not present our supplications before Thee for our righteousness, but for Thy great mercies.