The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

Although the fig-tree shall not blossom... YET I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The kingdom of God cometh not with observation... for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

Take each thing that is wrong in your lives as God’s chariot for you.

Without me ye can do nothing.

With Him present, what could I have to fear?

There is no place in the whole universe where He is not present; neither heaven, nor hell, nor the uttermost parts of the sea.

If God be for us, it matters not who may be against us; nothing can disturb or harm us, except He shall see that it is best for us, and shall stand aside to let it pass.

I never supposes. De Lord is my shepherd, and I knows I shall not want.

Our trials may be our chariots. We long for some victory over sin and self, and we ask God to grant it to us. His answer comes in the form of a trial which He means shall be the chariot to bear us to the longed-for triumph.

The proper thing to do was not to abandon themselves thus to utter discouragement... but at once to face the evil and get rid of it.

Any root of bitterness cherished towards another, any self-seeking and harsh judgments indulged in... will effectually cripple and paralyze our spiritual life.

A great many Christians are slaves to the habit of doubting. No drunkard was ever more utterly bound by the chains of his fatal habit than they are by theirs.

The same moment which brings the consciousness of having sinned, ought to bring also the consciousness of being forgiven.

Our fight is to be a fight of faith, and the moment we doubt, our fight ceases and our rebellion begins.

Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.

Love gives all, and must have all in return.

The perfect happiness of perfect obedience will dawn upon your soul, and you will begin to know something of what Jesus meant when He said, 'I delight to do thy will, O my God.

To be truly one with another, we must have the same likes and dislikes, the same joys and sorrows, the same hopes and fears.

Unless we are Christ-like in our thoughts and our ways, we are not one with Him, no matter how we feel.

The Lord is in thy heart. Since the day of thy conversion He has been dwelling there, but thou hast lived on in ignorance of it.

Man’s part is to trust and God’s part is to work.

God is able to save unto the uttermost, and He means to do it.

The clay is put into the potter’s hands, and then lies passive there, submitting itself to all the turnings and overturnings of the potter’s hands upon it.

We are to be delivered from the power of sin, and are to be made perfect in every good work to do the will of God.

The maturity of Christian experience cannot be reached in a moment, but is the result of the work of God’s Holy Spirit.

In order for a soul to be made into a vessel unto God’s honor, 'sanctified and meet for the Master’s use,' it must be entirely abandoned to Him, and must lie passive in His hands.

Let the ways of childish confidence and freedom from care, which so please you and win your hearts in your own little ones, teach you what should be your ways with God.

Christ Jesus hath entered so deeply into the root of the nature of man that He hath received power to destroy the devil and his works, and to recover and redeem man into righteousness and holiness.

Faith is simply believing God, and, like sight, it is nothing apart from its object.

When a believer really trusts anything, he ceases to worry about that thing which he has trusted.

The will is like a wise mother in a nursery; the feelings are like a set of clamoring, crying children.

Put your will then over on to the believing side. Say, 'Lord I will believe, I do believe,' and continue to say it.

The real thing in your experience is what your will decides, and not the verdict of your emotions.

What is needed, then, is to see God in everything, and to receive everything directly from His hands, with no intervention of second causes.

If we are one with Him, then of course in the very nature of things we can do nothing without Him.