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EXODUS 1
"The great Vizier who seemed to be the only protection of Israel is lying in ‘a coffin in Egypt.’ And all these truculent brothers of his that had tormented him, they are gone, and the whole generation is swept away. What of that? They were the depositories of God’s purposes for a little while. Are God’s purposes dead because the instruments that in part wrought them are gone? By no means. If I might use a very vulgar proverb, ‘There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it,’ especially if God casts the net. So when the one generation has passed away there is the other to take up the work." --Death and Growth, Exodus 1:6-7
"A great many hands are placed on the ropes that draw the car of the Ruler of the world. And one after another they get stiffened in death; but the car goes on. We should be contented to do our little bit of the work. Never mind whether it is complete and smooth and rounded or not. Never mind whether it can be isolated from the rest and held up, and people can say, ‘He did that entire thing unaided.’ That is not the way for most of us. A great many threads go to make the piece of cloth, and a great many throws of the shuttle to weave the web." --Death and Growth, Exodus 1:6-7
EXODUS 2
"We never feel the preciousness of dear ones so much, nor are so calm in the joy of possession, as when we have laid them in God’s hands, and have learned how wise and wonderful His care is." --The Ark Among the Flags, Exodus 2:1-10
". . . God’s way of blessing the world is to fill men with His message, and let others draw from them." --The Ark Among the Flags, Exodus 2:1-10
"The same principle which sent Saul of Tarsus to be trained at the feet of Gamaliel, and made Luther a monk in the Augustinian convent at Erfurt, planted Moses in Pharaoh’s palace and taught him the wisdom of Egypt, against which he was to contend. It was a strange irony of Providence that put him so close to the throne which he was to shake." --The Ark Among the Flags, Exodus 2:1-10
"Our story teaches us that God’s chosen instruments are immortal till their work is done. No matter how forlorn may seem their outlook, how small the probabilities in their favour, how divergent from the goal may seem the road He leads them, He watches them. Around that frail ark, half lost among the reeds, is cast the impregnable shield of His purpose." --The Ark Among the Flags, Exodus 2:1-10
EXODUS 3
"God sends no man on errands which He does not give him power to do." --The Call of Moses, Exodus 3:10-20
EXODUS 15
"Daily mercies are a pledge and a pattern of His continuous acts. The confidence that we shall be kept is based upon no hard doctrine of final perseverance, but on the assurance that God is always the same, like the sunshine which has poured out for all these millenniums and still rushes on with the same force." --The Ultimate Hope, Exodus 15:17
EXODUS 16
"The farther men stray from Him, the more tender and penetrating His recalling voice. We multiply transgressions, He multiplies mercies." --The Bread of God, Exodus 16:4-12
"The manna ceased when the people came near cornfields and settled homes. Miracles end when means are possible. But the God of the miracle is the God of the means." --The Bread of God, Exodus 16:4-12
EXODUS 17
"Only let us remember that the first field upon which we have to fight for God we carry about within ourselves; and that there will be no victories for us over other enemies until we have, first of all, subdued the foes that are within." --Jehovah Nissi, Exodus 17:15
"How easy it has been, in all generations, to make the sign of the Cross over what had none of the spirit of the Cross in it; and to say, ‘The cause is God’s, and therefore I war for it’; when the reality was, ‘The cause is mine, and therefore I take it for granted that it is God’s.’" --Jehovah Nissi, Exodus 17:15
"They only understand their place as Christ’s servants and soldiers who have learned to hush their own will until they know their Captain’s." --Jehovah Nissi, Exodus 17:15
EXODUS 18
"There is a great deal more in every man than can ever find a field of expression, of work, or of satisfaction in anything beneath the stars. And no man that understands, even superficially, his own character, his own requirements, can fail to feel in his sane and quiet moments, when the rush of temptation and the illusions of this fleeting life have lost their grip upon him: ‘This is not the place that can bring out all that is in me, or that can yield me all that I desire.’ Our capacities transcend the present, and the experiences of the present are all unintelligible, unless the true end of every human life is not here at all, but in another region, for which these experiences are fitting us." --Gershom and Eliezer, Exodus 18:3,4
" . . . we shall never say and feel ‘the Lord is my Helper,’ as we ought to do, until we have got deep in our hearts, and settled in our consciousness, the other conviction that we are strangers here. It is only when we realise that there is no other permanence for us that we put out our hands and grasp at the Eternal, in order not to be swept away upon the dark waves of the rushing stream of Time."--Gershom and Eliezer, Exodus 18:3,4
"Just as when the floods are out, men are driven to the highest ground to save their lives; so when the billows of the waters of time are seen to be rolling over all creatural things, we take our flight to the Rock of Ages." --Gershom and Eliezer, Exodus 18:3,4
"It is only fools that do not change." --The Ideal Statesman, Exodus 18:21
". . . there is something noble in the spectacle of a man ever keeping his mind, even when its windows were beginning to be dimmed by the frosts of age, open to the beams of new truth . . . Innovators aged eighty are not too numerous." --The Ideal Statesman, Exodus 18:21
"We cannot all be great men. Never mind. It is character that tells; we can all be good men, and we can all be Christian men. And whether we build cottages or palaces, if we build on one foundation, and only if we do, they will stand." --The Ideal Statesman, Exodus 18:21
EXODUS 20
"No more serious damage can be inflicted on society or on individuals than the weakening of the honour paid to fathers and mothers." --The Decalogue: II. Man and Man, Exodus 20: 12-21
EXODUS 23
"What we are depends largely on what we have been, and what we have been powerfully acts in determining what we shall be. Life is a mystic chain, not a heap of unconnected links." --The Feast of Ingathering in the End of the Year, Exodus 23:16
EXODUS 25
", , , what I desire to insist upon now is how important, for the nobleness and purity of our daily lives, it is that we should be in the continual habit of realising to ourselves the thought that whatever we do, we do before His Face." --The Bread of the Presence, Exodus 25:30
"Dear brethren, you can do far more to help or hinder the spread of Christ’s Kingdom by the way in which you do common things, side by side with men who are not partakers of the ‘like precious faith’ with yourselves, than I or my fellow-preachers can do by all our words." --The Golden Lampstand, Exodus 25:31
". . . every Christian soul has some other soul to whom its word comes with a force that none other can have." --The Golden Lampstand, Exodus 25:31
EXODUS 28
" ‘Holiness to the Lord’ is self-surrender of will and heart and mind and everything. And that surrender is of the very essence of Christianity. --Three Inscriptions with One Meaning, Exodus 28:36
EXODUS 30
"If our prayers are to be heard as music in heaven, they must come from a stretched string." --The Altar of Incense, Exodus 30:1
"There must be definite times of distinct prayer if the aroma of devotion is to be diffused through our else scentless days." --The Altar of Incense, Exodus 30:1
EXODUS 32
"One man, with God at his back, is always in the majority." --The Swift Decay of Love, Exodus 32:15-26
EXODUS 33
"God does not send His servants out to sow without seed, or to fight without a sword. His command is His pledge." --The Mediator's Threefold Prayer, Exodus 33:12-23
EXODUS 34
"Sin evokes His pardoning mercy. This insignificant speck in Creation has been the scene of the wonder of the Incarnation, not because its magnitude was great, but because its need was desperate." --God Proclaiming His Own Name, Exodus 34:6
"The wilder the storm of human evil roars and rages, the deeper and louder is the voice that peals across the storm. So for us all Christ is the full and final revelation of God’s grace. The last, because the perfect embodiment of it; the sole, because the sufficient manifestation of it. ‘See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh.’" --God Proclaiming His Own Name, Exodus 34:6
"There is no influence to refine and beautify men like that of living near Jesus Christ, and walking in the light of that Beauty which is ‘the effulgence of the divine glory and the express image of His Person.’" --Blessed and Tragic Unconsciousness, Exodus 34:29
"Let us, then, try to lose ourselves in Jesus Christ. That way of self-oblivion is emancipation and blessedness and power. It is safe for us to leave all thoughts of our miserable selves behind us, if instead of them we have the thought of that great, sweet, dear Lord, filling mind and heart." --Blessed and Tragic Unconsciousness, Exodus 34:29
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