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1 CHRONICLES 4
"The vigour of our Christian life largely depends on our keeping vivid the consciousness of our communion with Jesus and the sense of His real presence with us." --The King's Potters, 1 Chronicles 4:23
"The King’s work is far wider in scope than teaching in Sunday-schools, or visiting the sick, or any similar acts that are usually labelled with the name. It covers all the common duties of life." --The King's Potters, 1 Chronicles 4:23
1 CHRONICLES 12
"There have been many victories won by undisciplined valour, but disciplined cowardice and apathy come to no good." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
"It cannot be truthfully denied that both in the relations of our churches to one another, and in the internal organisation of these, we are and have been too loosely compacted, and have forgotten that two is more than one plus one . . . ." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
"All our organisation, then, is but an arrangement for doing our work, and if it hinders that, it is cumbrous and must be cut away or modified, at all hazards." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
". . . ponder the old wise saying: ‘Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.’ " --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
"There needs to be a far greater variety of forms of work for our people and more workers in the field. There are too few wheels for the quantity of water in the river, and, partly for that reason, the amount of water that runs waste over the sluice is deplorable. There is a danger in having too many spindles for the power available, but the danger in modern church organisation is exactly the other way." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
"If the world managed its societies as the Church manages its unity, they would collapse quickly. Indeed it is a strong presumption in favour of Christianity that the Churches have not killed it long ago." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
". . . it is the ardour of a soul full of love to Jesus that conquers. The one thing in which all who have done much for Him have been alike in that single-hearted devotion." --Drill and Enthusiasm, 1 Chronicles 12:33
1 CHRONICLES 22
"So should our whole souls be occupied with our parts in God’s service, and so should our desires be strongly set towards carrying out what in solitary meditation we have felt borne in on us as our duty." --David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service, 1 Chronicles 22:6-16
"None of us are privileged to perform completed tasks. ‘One soweth and another reapeth.’ We have to be content to do partial work, and to leave its completion to our successors." --David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service, 1 Chronicles 22:6-16
"It is privilege enough for any Christian to lay foundations on which coming days may build. We are like the workers on some great cathedral, which was begun long before the present generation of masons were born, and will not be finished until long after they have dropped trowel and mallet from their dead hands." --David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service, 1 Chronicles 22:6-16
". . . if our work is but preparatory for that of those who come after, let us not think it of slight importance, and let us be sure that all who have had any portion in the toil shall share in the victory, that ‘he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.’" --David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service, 1 Chronicles 22:6-16
1 CHRONICLES 28
"It is not enough to do God’s will as far as we know it; we must ever be endeavouring after clearer, deeper insight into it." --David's Charge to Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:1-10
"Faith without works is dead, and works without faith are dead too." --David's Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service, 1 Chronicles 28:1-10
". . . it is true, and in a very solemn sense God is to us what we make Him." --David's Charge to Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:1-10
"If we are to fulfil God’s purposes with us, and to be such tools as He can use for building His true Temple, we must exercise self-control and ‘take heed to our ways,’ and we must brace ourselves against opposition and crush down our own timidity. It seems to be commanding an impossibility to say to a weak creature like any one of us, ‘Be strong,’ but the impossible becomes a possibility when the exhortation takes the full Christian form: ‘Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.’" --David's Charge to Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:1-10
1 CHRONICLES 29
"Thus each life is made up of a series, not merely of successive moments, but of well-marked epochs, each of which has its own character, its own responsibilities, its own opportunities, in each of which there is some special work to be done, some grace to be cultivated, some lesson to be learned, some sacrifice to be made; and if it is let slip it never comes back any more." --The Waves of Time, 1 Chronicles 29:30
"Through all the variety of human occupations, each moment comes to us with its own special mission, and yet, alas! to far too many of us the alternations do not suggest the question, what is it that I am hereby called upon to be or to do? what is the lesson that present circumstances are meant to teach, and the grace that my present condition is meant to force me to cultivate or exhibit?" --The Waves of Time, 1 Chronicles 29:30
". . . how eloquently the words of my text suggest the transiency of all the ‘times.’They ‘passed over him’ as the wind through an archway, that whistles and comes not again." --The Waves of Time, 1 Chronicles 29:30
". . . the more fully we are penetrated with the persistent conviction of the transiency of the things seen and temporal, the greater they become, by a strange paradox. For then only are they seen in their true magnitude and nobility, in their true solemnity and importance as having a bearing on the things that are eternal." --The Waves of Time, 1 Chronicles 29:30
"The times roll over us, like the seas that break upon some isolated rock, and when the tide has fallen and the vain flood has subsided, the rock is there." --The Waves of Time, 1 Chronicles 29:30
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