“Whenever that inner voice says ‘Don’t,’ we must disregard the persistent solicitations of others, and be ready to be singular, and run any risk rather than comply.” --The Net Spread, Esther 3:1-11
“Christians should ‘play the citizen as it becomes the gospel of Christ,’ and take care that they are not beguiled into national enmities and public injustice by the specious talk of modern Hamans.” --The Net Spread, Esther 3:1-11
ESTHER 4
“Mordecai impressively enforces his assurance that Israel cannot perish, and his belief in Providence setting people in their places for great unselfish ends; and Esther is ready to die, if need be, in trying to save her people, and thinks that fasting and prayer will help her in her daring attempt. These two cousins, unlike in so much, were alike in their devotion to Israel; and though they said little about their religion, they acted it, which is better.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“Unless we fully realise difficulties and dangers beforehand, our enthusiasm for great causes will ooze out at our fingers’ ends at the first rude assault of these. So let us count the cost before we take up arms, and let us take up arms after we have counted the cost. Cautious courage, courageous caution, are good guides. Either alone is a bad one.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“Mordecai impressively enforces his assurance that Israel cannot perish, and his belief in Providence setting people in their places for great unselfish ends; and Esther is ready to die, if need be, in trying to save her people, and thinks that fasting and prayer will help her in her daring attempt. These two cousins, unlike in so much, were alike in their devotion to Israel; and though they said little about their religion, they acted it, which is better.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“Unless we fully realise difficulties and dangers beforehand, our enthusiasm for great causes will ooze out at our fingers’ ends at the first rude assault of these. So let us count the cost before we take up arms, and let us take up arms after we have counted the cost. Cautious courage, courageous caution, are good guides. Either alone is a bad one.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“If we are sure that a given course, however full of peril and inconvenience, is in the line of God’s purposes, that is a reason for strenuous effort to carry it out.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“There is a holy and noble ambition which covets the dignity of being used by Him. They who believe that their work helps forward what is dear to God’s heart may well do with their might what they find to do, and not be too careful to keep on the safe side in doing it. The honour is more than the danger.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“The source of all endowments of position, possessions, or capacities, is God. His purpose in them all goes far beyond the happiness of the receiver. Dignities and gifts of every sort are ours for use in carrying out His great designs of good to our fellows. --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“Power is duty. Responsibility is measured by capacity. Obligation attends advantages. Gifts are burdens. All men are stewards, and God gives His servants their ‘talents,’ not for selfish squandering or hoarding, but to trade with, and to pay the profits to Him.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“God gives us our position that we may use it for His cause, for the spread of the Gospel.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“No [person] has anything for [their] own sake-no [person] liveth to [themselves]. We come to the kingdom for others. Here we touch the foundation of all authority; we learn the awful burden of all talents, the dreadful weight of every gift.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“The fact is that selfishness is the ruin of any people. When you have a ‘Christian’ nation not using their position for God’s glory, they are using it for their own sakes; and that indicates a state of mind which will lead to numberless other evils in their relation to [people], many of which have a direct tendency to rob them of their advantages.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“If we do not bind subject peoples to us by benefits, we shall repel them by hatreds.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“The march of Providence goes on. Its purposes will be effected. Whatever stands in the way will be mowed remorselessly down, if need be.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“So it is certain that God from eternity has willed that all flesh should see His salvation. He loves the heathen better than we do. Christ has died not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world. God hath made of one blood all nations of [people]. The race is one in its need. The race is one in its goal. The Gospel is fit for all [people]. The Gospel is preached to all [people]. The Gospel shall yet be received by a world, and from every corner of a believing earth will rise one roll of praise to one Father, and the race shall be one in its hopes, one in its Lord, one in faith, one in baptism, one in one God and Father of us all. That grand unity shall certainly come. That true unity and fraternity shall be realised. The blissful wave of the knowledge of the Lord shall cover and hide and flow rejoicingly over all national distinctions.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
Let your work be such as that it shall abide. Work for God abides and outlasts everything beside, and the smallest service for Him is only made to flash forth light by the glorifying and revealing fires of that awful day which will burn up the wood, the hay, and the stubble, and flow with beautifying brightness and be flashed back with double splendour from ‘the gold, the silver, and the precious stones,’ the abiding workmanship of devout hearts in that everlasting tabernacle which shall not be taken down, the ransomed souls builded together, ransomed by our preaching, and ‘builded up together for a temple of God by the Spirit.’” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
ESTHER 8
“Contented acceptance of obscurity and neglect of his services, faithfulness to his people and his God in the foul atmosphere of such a court, wise reticence, patient discharge of small duties, undoubting hope when things looked blackest fed by stedfast faith in God, unchangedness of character and purpose when lifted to supreme dignity, the use of influence and place, not for himself, but for his people,-all these are traits which may be imitated in any life.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“He (Mordecai) valued power because it enabled him to save his brethren, and we should cultivate the same spirit.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“This book of Esther does not say much about God, but His presence broods over it all, and is the real spring that moves the movers that are seen. It is all a lesson of how God works out His purposes through men that seem to themselves to be working out theirs.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“To-day, as then, He (God) is working out His deep designs through men whom He has raised up, though they have not known Him. Amid the clash of contending interests and worldly passions His solemn purpose steadily advances to its end, like the irresistible ocean current, which persists through all storms that agitate the surface, and draws them into the drift of its silent trend.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“There is a holy and noble ambition which covets the dignity of being used by Him. They who believe that their work helps forward what is dear to God’s heart may well do with their might what they find to do, and not be too careful to keep on the safe side in doing it. The honour is more than the danger.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“The source of all endowments of position, possessions, or capacities, is God. His purpose in them all goes far beyond the happiness of the receiver. Dignities and gifts of every sort are ours for use in carrying out His great designs of good to our fellows. --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“Power is duty. Responsibility is measured by capacity. Obligation attends advantages. Gifts are burdens. All men are stewards, and God gives His servants their ‘talents,’ not for selfish squandering or hoarding, but to trade with, and to pay the profits to Him.” --Esther’s Venture, Esther 4:10-17; 5:1-3
“God gives us our position that we may use it for His cause, for the spread of the Gospel.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“No [person] has anything for [their] own sake-no [person] liveth to [themselves]. We come to the kingdom for others. Here we touch the foundation of all authority; we learn the awful burden of all talents, the dreadful weight of every gift.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“The fact is that selfishness is the ruin of any people. When you have a ‘Christian’ nation not using their position for God’s glory, they are using it for their own sakes; and that indicates a state of mind which will lead to numberless other evils in their relation to [people], many of which have a direct tendency to rob them of their advantages.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“If we do not bind subject peoples to us by benefits, we shall repel them by hatreds.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“The march of Providence goes on. Its purposes will be effected. Whatever stands in the way will be mowed remorselessly down, if need be.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
“So it is certain that God from eternity has willed that all flesh should see His salvation. He loves the heathen better than we do. Christ has died not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world. God hath made of one blood all nations of [people]. The race is one in its need. The race is one in its goal. The Gospel is fit for all [people]. The Gospel is preached to all [people]. The Gospel shall yet be received by a world, and from every corner of a believing earth will rise one roll of praise to one Father, and the race shall be one in its hopes, one in its Lord, one in faith, one in baptism, one in one God and Father of us all. That grand unity shall certainly come. That true unity and fraternity shall be realised. The blissful wave of the knowledge of the Lord shall cover and hide and flow rejoicingly over all national distinctions.” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
Let your work be such as that it shall abide. Work for God abides and outlasts everything beside, and the smallest service for Him is only made to flash forth light by the glorifying and revealing fires of that awful day which will burn up the wood, the hay, and the stubble, and flow with beautifying brightness and be flashed back with double splendour from ‘the gold, the silver, and the precious stones,’ the abiding workmanship of devout hearts in that everlasting tabernacle which shall not be taken down, the ransomed souls builded together, ransomed by our preaching, and ‘builded up together for a temple of God by the Spirit.’” --Mordecai and Esther, Esther 4:14
ESTHER 8
“Contented acceptance of obscurity and neglect of his services, faithfulness to his people and his God in the foul atmosphere of such a court, wise reticence, patient discharge of small duties, undoubting hope when things looked blackest fed by stedfast faith in God, unchangedness of character and purpose when lifted to supreme dignity, the use of influence and place, not for himself, but for his people,-all these are traits which may be imitated in any life.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“He (Mordecai) valued power because it enabled him to save his brethren, and we should cultivate the same spirit.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“This book of Esther does not say much about God, but His presence broods over it all, and is the real spring that moves the movers that are seen. It is all a lesson of how God works out His purposes through men that seem to themselves to be working out theirs.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
“To-day, as then, He (God) is working out His deep designs through men whom He has raised up, though they have not known Him. Amid the clash of contending interests and worldly passions His solemn purpose steadily advances to its end, like the irresistible ocean current, which persists through all storms that agitate the surface, and draws them into the drift of its silent trend.” --The Net Broken, Esther 8:3-8, 15-17
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