Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells his Church his love thoughts. “He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence he says, ‘Thou art all fair, my love.’ It is true, this is not his ordinary method; he is a wise lover, and knows when to keep back…

  • THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY

    The Pilgrim’s Progress WHEN at the first I took my pen in handThus for to write, I did not understandThat I at all should make a little bookIn such a mode: nay, I had undertookTo make another; which, when almost done,Before I was aware I this begun. And race of saints in this our gospel-day,Fell…

  • SORROW OF HEART

    The Imitation of Christ IF YOU wish to make progress in virtue, live in the fear of the Lord, do not look for too much freedom, discipline your senses, and shun inane silliness. Sorrow opens the door to many a blessing which dissoluteness usually destroys. It is a wonder that any man who considers and…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    If the disposal of the lot is the Lord’s whose is the arrangement of our whole life? If the simple casting of a lot is guided by him, how much more the events of our entire life—especially when we are told by our blessed Saviour: “The very hairs of your head are all numbered: not…

  • THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE AND SILENCE

    The Imitation of Christ SEEK a suitable time for leisure and meditate often on the favors of God. Leave curiosities alone. Read such matters as bring sorrow to the heart rather than occupation to the mind. If you withdraw yourself from unnecessary talking and idle running about, from listening to gossip and rumors, you will…

  • A PRAYING PULPIT BEGETS A PRAYING PEW

    Power Through Prayer I judge that my prayer is more than the devil himself; if it were otherwise, Luther would have fared differently long before this. Yet men will not see and acknowledge the great wonders or miracles God works in my behalf. If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    GARMENT-RENDING and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations—for such things are pleasing to the flesh—but true religion is too humbling, too heart-searching, too…

  • THE PRACTICES OF A GOOD RELIGIOUS

    The Imitation of Christ THE life of a good religious ought to abound in every virtue so that he is interiorly what to others he appears to be. With good reason there ought to be much more within than appears on the outside, for He who sees within is God, Whom we ought to reverence…

  • DELIBERATION NECESSARY TO LARGEST RESULTS FROM PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often upon that face which we love;…