Character and Conduct – 12 October – Prayer
PRAY, till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.
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.
IF YOU want your neighbour to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you.
…and so we learn to listen for and to love ‘the still small voice’ in which He speaks to our hearts.
Jesus reminds us again and again that only the little ones are welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Why do we find it so difficult to heed His call?
THE distinguishing mark of religion is not so much liberty as obedience,
MEN find Christ through their fellow-men, and every glimpse they get of Him is a direct message from Himself.