JOB 1
“It is worth our while to stay for one moment with the thought that we are meant to feel grief.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
“. . . all possessions are transient. The naked self gets clothed and lapped round with possessions, but they are all outside of it, apart from its individuality. It has been without them. It will be without them. Death at the end will rob us of them all.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
“We are losing something every moment-not only possessions, but all our dearest ties are knit but for a time, and sure to be snapped. They go, and then after a while we go.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
“We have to learn the hard lesson which sounds so unfeeling, that we can live on in spite of all losses. Nothing, no one, is necessary to us.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
“. . . we may be sure that all loss is for our good.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
“In loss of dear ones, our gain is in drawing nearer to God, in being taught more to long for heaven.” --Sorrow that Worships, Job 1:21
JOB 5
“. . . the large truth underlying the words here is that, if we are servants of God, we are masters of everything.” --The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne, Job 5:17-27
“. . . the reality is that the devout soul may reckon on complete life, whether it be long or short. God will not call His children home till their schooling is done; and, however green and young the corn may seem to our eyes, He knows which heads in the great harvest-field are ready for removal, and gathers only these.” --The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne, Job 5:17-27
“Not length of days, but likeness to God, makes maturity; and if we die according to the will of God, it cannot but be that we shall come to our grave in a full age, whatever be the number of years carved on our tombstones.” --The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne, Job 5:17-27
JOB 8
“But for what did he receive this great gift? Mainly that he might pass beyond the temporal and hold converse with the skies. Its true sphere is the unseen future which is at God’s right hand.” --Two Kinds of Hope, Job 8:14; Romans 5:5
“‘The righteous hath hope in his death.’ We can each settle for ourselves whether we shall carry that radiant angel with her white wings into the great darkness, or shall sadly part with her before we part with life. To the earthly soul that last earthly hour is a black wall beyond which it cannot look. To the God-trusting soul the darkness is peopled with bright-faced hopes.” --Two Kinds of Hope, Job 8:14; Romans 5:5
“‘Hope maketh not ashamed.’ There will be an internal increase of blessedness, power, purity in that future, a fuller possession of God, a reaching out after completer likeness to Him. So if we can think of days in that calm state where time will be no more, ‘to-morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant,’ and the angel Hope, who kept us company through all the weary marches of earth, will attend on us still, only having laid aside the uncertainty that sometime veiled her smiles, but retaining all the buoyant eagerness for the ever unfolding wonders which gave us courage and cheer in the days of our flesh.” --Two Kinds of Hope, Job 8:14; Romans 5:5
JOB 14
“. . . though he has no certainty, he cannot part with the possibility . . . men have always had the idea of a future.” --Job’s Question, Jesus’ Answer, Job 14:14; John 11:25-26
JOB 22
“For us Jesus Christ is the Revealer. What men know of God apart from Him is dim, shadowy, indistinct; it lacks certainty, and so is not knowledge.” --Knowledge and Peace, Job 22:21
“. . . the familiar act of faith, which includes both an exercise of the understanding, as it embraces the facts of Christ’s revelation of the Father, and of the will as it casts itself upon and submits to Him. But that exercise of faith is but the point which has to be drawn out into a golden line, woven into the whole length of a life. And it is in the continuity of that line that the average Christian so sadly fails, and because of that failure his acquaintance with God is so distant. How little time or thought we give to the character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ! We must be on intimate terms with Him. To know God, as to know a man, we must ‘live with’ Him, must summer and winter with Him, must bring Him into the pettinesses of daily life . . . .” --Knowledge and Peace, Job 22:21
“. . . if a [person] really has set [their] heart on God, and knows that in Him is all that [they] needs, then, of course, [they] will tell Him everything.” --What Life May Be Made, Job 22:26-29
“God first gives His promise, and the best prayer is the catching up of God’s promise and tossing it back again whence it came.” --What Life May Be Made, Job 22:26-29
“. . . so you and I, if we delight ourselves ‘in the Lord,’ will have an unsetting sun to light our paths; ‘and at eventide,’ and in the mirkest midnight, ‘there will be light’ in the darkness.” --What Life May Be Made, Job 22:26-29
“The devout life is largely independent of circumstances, and is upheld and calmed by a quiet certainty that the general trend of its path is upward, which enables it to trudge hopefully down an occasional dip in the road.” --What Life May Be Made, Job 22:26-29
JOB 42
“Get closer to God, realise His presence, live beneath His eye and with your eyes fixed on Him, and ancient puzzles will puzzle no longer, and wounds will cease to smart, and instead of angry expostulation or bewildered attempts at construing His dealings, there will come submission, and with submission, peace.” --The End of the Lord, Job 42:1-10
“The cure for questionings of His providence is experience of His nearness, and blessedness therein. Things that loomed large dwindle, and dangers melt away.” --The End of the Lord, Job 42:1-10
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