item: #1 of 10 id: 14849 author: Steinmetz, Margaret Bird title: Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration date: None words: 69595 flesch: 89 summary: Alexander the Great born B. C. 356. For all sweet and pleasant passages in the great story of life men may well thank God; for leisure and ease and health and friendship may God make us truly and humbly grateful; but our chief song of thanksgiving must be always for our kinship with him, with all that such divinity of greatness brings of peril, hardship, toil, and sacrifice. keywords: almighty; april; august; born; care; charles; day; days; death; earth; emerson; eyes; faith; father; fear; friend; george; glory; god; good; grant; great; hand; happiness; hath; heart; heaven; help; henry; hold; hope; james; january; jehovah; john; joy; july; life; light; look; lord; lord god; love; loving; man; march; men; mind; morning; nature; need; new; peace; power; rest; robert; seek; sir; sorrow; soul; spirit; strength; thee; things; thomas; thou; thoughts; thy; thy god; time; trust; truth; use; wait; way; william; wilt; wisdom; words; work; world; years cache: 14849.txt plain text: 14849.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 20711 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife date: None words: 43506 flesch: 86 summary: Man would never have even dreamed of a Living God had not that Living God been a reality, who did not leave the creature to find his Creator, but stooped from heaven, at the very beginning of our race, to find His creature. Of all the blessings which the study of Nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this, that the farther he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, which Spenser saw and described in his great poem, the more he learns the awful and yet comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to One greater, wiser, lovelier than he; and as he stands, silent with awe, amid the pomp of Nature's ever-busy rest, hears as of old, The Word of the Lord God walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day. keywords: blessed; chap; christ; day; death; earth; faith; father; god; good; heart; heaven; human; let; letters; life; lord; love; man; memories; men; mind; nature; right; saints; self; sermons; soul; spirit; things; thou; time; work; world; years cache: 20711.txt plain text: 20711.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 23241 author: Jowett, John Henry title: My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year date: None words: 81835 flesch: 88 summary: 1-11. Goliath seemed to have everything on his side _except_ God. From this, and all other sinful folly, good Lord, redeem us! keywords: = =; children; christ; day; death; evil; eyes; faith; fear; fire; glory; god; good; grace; hath; heart; holy; home; house; jesus; john; king; life; light; little; look; lord; lord god; love; man; men; mind; need; new; open; people; place; power; presence; road; self; sin; soul; spirit; spiritual; strength; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; work; world cache: 23241.txt plain text: 23241.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 27344 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: The Faithful Promiser date: None words: 8991 flesch: 87 summary: Though thou hast all else beside, bereft of God thou must be bereft indeed. I have in my heart, Thy _comforts_ delight my soul! REMEMBER _THIS_ keywords: day; god; grace; hope; lord; love; servant; soul; thee; thine; thou; word cache: 27344.txt plain text: 27344.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 27852 author: Sylvain, Adrien title: Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life date: None words: 23614 flesch: 81 summary: What is done by these poor people and little children for the gold dust GOD has sown in those obscure rivers, we would do with those counsels and teachings which GOD has sown almost everywhere, which sparkle, enlighten, and inspire for a moment, then disappear, leaving but regret that the thought did not occur to collect and treasure them. A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal: If I dared, I would ask GOD why I am placed in the world; what have I to do? keywords: child; day; god; good; heart; help; holy; jesus; life; love; peace; prayer; soul; thee; thou; thought; thy; words cache: 27852.txt plain text: 27852.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 28547 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: The Words of Jesus date: None words: 18255 flesch: 80 summary: He who reflects the mind of Jesus; imbibes His Spirit; takes His Word as the regulator of his daily walk, and makes His glory the great end of his being; he who lives _to_ God and _with_ God, and _for_ God; the humble, lowly, Christ-like, Heaven-seeking Christian;--he it is who can claim as his own this wondrous heritage of love! Jesus was divinely qualified for this special office of speaking many and _comfortable_ words. keywords: believer; christ; day; father; glory; god; heaven; jesus; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; peace; people; thee; thou; thy; words; world cache: 28547.txt plain text: 28547.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 37292 author: None title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour date: None words: 40094 flesch: 90 summary: This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being--to be able to _walk_ with God! 4._ There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which alone God can accompany him.--_Denham Smith._ =January 22nd.= _ keywords: = july; christ; day; faith; father; glory; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; john; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; prayer; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; way; work; world cache: 37292.txt plain text: 37292.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 40482 author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson title: The Meaning of Faith date: None words: 126477 flesch: 72 summary: Without faith men collapse into a yielding mass of plaintiveness and fear; with faith they move mountains. Without such faith man feels himself to be, in Goethe's phrase, a troubled wanderer upon a darkened earth. keywords: belief; character; children; christ; christian; church; day; divine; doubt; earth; eternal; evil; experience; face; fact; faith; father; fear; fellowship; find; glory; god; good; goodness; heart; hope; human; jehovah; jesus; joy; knowledge; law; life; light; lives; living; lord; love; man; master; meaning; men; mind; nature; need; new; people; physical; power; prayer; purpose; reality; religion; science; sense; service; set; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trust; truth; understand; universe; unto; way; week; words; work; world cache: 40482.txt plain text: 40482.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 50916 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: Evening Incense date: None words: 19292 flesch: 81 summary: May I spend each day as if possibly it were my last, so that should the midnight cry break upon my ears, Prepare to meet Thy God, it might be to me no unexpected summons, but as an angel whispering, The Master is come and calleth for thee. Thou art ever giving me impressive remembrances that at such an hour as I think not, the summons may come, Prepare to meet Thy God. keywords: day; evening; god; grace; incense; jesus; lord; love; night; prayer; sacrifice; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thy; world cache: 50916.txt plain text: 50916.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 8534 author: Tileston, Mary Wilder title: Daily Strength for Daily Needs date: None words: 73318 flesch: 85 summary: What I possess, or what I crave, Brings no content, great God, to me, If what I would, or what I have, Be not possest, and blest, in Thee; What I enjoy, O make it mine, High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. keywords: bear; care; day; divine; duty; evil; father; fear; god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; life; light; look; lord; lord god; lord thy; love; man; mind; peace; power; rest; self; soul; spirit; strength; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; thy god; time; trust; way; work; world cache: 8534.txt plain text: 8534.txt