This [Psalm 23:2] suggests the rest into which our Good Shepherd leads His flock. Life is not all toil. God gives us many quiet resting places in our pilgrim way.
J. R. Miller
For a listing of the resting places, see full quote.
Used with Psalm 23:2
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 38.
Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service to the neglect of personal communion; but such neglect will not only lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the highest service.
J. Hudson Taylor
Emphasis Author’s
Used with Song of Solomon 1:6
My added thought: This was written before 1900. Our intense activity is not anything new.
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 37.
A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our religion into the business of the day.
Selected
Used with Ezekiel 12:8
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 36.
We are often surprised at the outward calmness of men who are called upon to do unpleasant and most trying deeds; but could we have seen them in secret, we should have known the moral preparation which they underwent before coming out to be seen by man. Be right in the sanctuary, if you would be right in the market-place [sic]. Be steadfast in prayer, if you would be calm in affliction. Start your race from the throne of God itself, if you would run well, and win the prize.
Joseph Parker
Used with Exodus 2:3
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 33.
If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.
–Selected
Used with Romans 8:28
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 31.
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. That is God’s poetic justice.
Tim Keller
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The Scripture gives four names to Christians, taken from the four cardinal graces so essential to man’s salvation: Saints for their holiness, believers for their faith, brethren for their love, disciples for their knowledge.
Thomas Fuller
Emphasis author’s.
Used with 1 Corinthians 1:7
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 30.
Like Christ, we too must yield our body, with every member, every power, every action, to fulfil [sic] His will, to be offered up to Him, to glorify Him.
Andrew Murray
Used with Hebrews 10:5
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 28.
He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties of everyday life.
–Selected
Used with John 8:29
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 27.
The same moment which brings the consciousness of sin ought to bring also the confession of it and the consciousness of forgiveness.
–Smith
Used with 1 John 1:9
Found in Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, Ed. Dwight L. Moody, Fleming H. Revell Company: Chicago, 1900, p. 26.
