Thoughts for Christian Living

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1915

Thoughts for Christian Living

“O, THE comfort of knowing that ‘He knows’ and is leading! It is a thought that grows on one in its comfort as one grows older, especially in times of uncertainty and trouble.”

“WE become largely what we think we want to be. High thinking leads to high aiming. If we think great things long enough and hard enough, some day we are likely to do them.”

“ANXIETY does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It brings a double weakness; for it makes us feeble in today’s endeavors and faint-hearted for the future.”

THOMAS ADAMS wrote three centuries ago: “Patience is the best chemist, for out of coarse earth she can draw pure gold; out of trouble, peace; out of sorrow, joy; out of persecution, profit; out of affliction, comfort.”

“SELF is the great enemy to all worthy achievement, because it prevents us from seeing beyond our own circumscribed horizon. Self hinders all Christian progress, because it makes itself instead of God the center of life and of love.”

“WE are our neighbors’ keepers, and in this we share the very honor and glory of God himself. Are you living the shared life of the One who, though he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich?”

AM I to thank God for everything? Am I to thank him for bereavement, for pain, for poverty, for toil? . . . Be still, my soul. Thou hast misread the message. It is not to give thanks for everything, but to give thanks “in everything.” —George Matheson, D. D.

WE may not add a hair’s breadth to the seamless robe of Christ’s righteousness, but we may be allowed, by obedience to God’s commandments, to add the beauty of a graceful fringe, and so to adorn the doctrines of our Lord and Saviour by pious and godly conversation. —P. T. Henson.