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DEUTERONOMY 8
"Let memory work under the distinct recognition of divine guidance in every part of the past." --The Lesson of Memory, Deuteronomy 8:2
"The future for the man who lives in Christ is but the prolongation, and the heightening into superlative excellence and beauty, of all that is good in the past and in the present." --The Lesson of Memory, Deuteronomy 8:2
DEUTERONOMY 30
"They err who think of God’s commandments as grievous burdens; they are merciful guide-posts. They do not so much lay weights on our backs as give light to our eyes." --The Spirit of the Law, Deuteronomy 30:11-20
DEUTERONOMY 32
". . . it is all meant as training. If we could only carry that clear conviction with us day by day into the little things of life, what different things these, which we call the monotonous trifles of our daily duties, would become! The things may be small and unimportant, but the way in which we do them is not unimportant." --The Eagle and Its Brood, Deuteronomy 32:11
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." --The Eagle and Its Brood, Deuteronomy 32:11
DEUTERONOMY 33
". . . he who knows himself to have God for his friend and his helper, can go through the world keeping a sunny face, whatever the clouds may be, erect and secure, light of heart and buoyant, holding up his chin above the stormiest waters, and breasting all difficulties and dangers with a confidence far away from presumption, because it is the consequence of the realisation of God’s presence." --At the Bush, Deuteronomy 33:16
". . . each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well." --Shod for the Road, Deuteronomy 33:25
DEUTERONOMY 34
". . . an offence of Moses could not be a small offence.’ Noblesse oblige! The higher a man rises in communion with God, and the more glorious the message and office which are put into his hands, the more intolerable in him is the slightest deflection from the loftiest level." --A Death in the Desert, Deuteronomy 34:5, 6
"It is the lot of all epoch-making men, of all great constructive and reforming geniuses, whether in the Church or in the world, that they should toil at a task, the full issues of which will not be known until their heads are laid low in the dust . . . But that is not the fate of epoch-making and great men only; it is the law for our little lives. If these are worth anything, they are constructed on a scale too large to bring out all their results here and now." --A Death in the Desert, Deuteronomy 34:5, 6
"Moses dies alone, with no hand to clasp his, none to close his eyes; but God’s finger does it. The outward form of his death is but putting into symbol and visibility the awful characteristics of that last moment for us all. However closely we have been twined with others, each of us has to unclasp dear hands, and make that journey through the narrow, dark tunnel by himself. We live alone in a very real sense, but we each have to die as if there were not another human being in the whole universe but only ourselves. But the solitude may be a solitude with God. Up there, alone with the stars and the sky and the everlasting rocks and menacing death, Moses had for companion the supporting God. That awful path is not too desolate and lonely to be trodden if we tread it with Him." --A Death in the Desert, Deuteronomy 34:5, 6
"God has many tools in His tool-chest, and He needs them all before the work is done. Joshua could no more have wielded Moses’ rod than Moses could have wielded Joshua’s sword. The one did his work, and was laid aside. New circumstances required a new type of character-the smaller man better fitted for the rougher work. And so it always is. Each generation, each period, has its own men that do some little part of the work which has to be done, and then drop it and hand over the task to others." --A Death in the Desert, Deuteronomy 34:5, 6
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