Heb.

11:4

J. R. Miller
Died
2nd July 1912

 He was a wise traveler who, when his horse died, said: “Well, I
must walk now,” and trudged on with cheerful energy. Yet a great
many people would have sat down beside the dead horse and
spent days in bemoaning their loss. 

 People who live in sin do not confess that they are slaves — they
often think they are the only free men, and that Christians are the
slaves. But in this entire world there is no bondage as terrible as
the bondage of sin. 

 Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the
privilege of doing good.

 Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men

want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken,
in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the
unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with
earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ
 cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He
can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a
harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest
failure up to heaven's glory. 

 Often our prayers may seem to remain long unanswered, for some
blessings are so rich that they cannot be prepared for us in a day,
but let us be sure that they are not lost nor forgotten.

 It is supposed by some that religion makes people solemn, takes

the sunshine out of their life, the joy out of their heart, the song
out of their mouth. But the reverse of this is the truth. No other
one in the world has such secrets of joy as has the Christian.
Christ teaches his followers to rejoice. He bids them rejoice even in
sorrow and trial.

 Because a thing is hard is not reason why we should not do it. The
limit of duty is not the limit of human ability. We ought to do
many things which, with our own strength alone, we cannot do.
There is a realm of faith in which a Christian should live which is
not under the sway of natural laws.

 He who really wants to choose the path of life, who desires to grow
wiser and better, will welcome whatever teaches him a lesson,
though it be painful or hard.

 It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no

matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing
it. 

 The first condition of consecration must always be entire readiness

to accept God’s will for our life.
 Thirst is a characteristic of humanity. Wherever you find a human
soul you find in it longings, desires, yearnings. It is only
commonplace to say that in this entire world there is nothing to
satisfy a human soul. There has been no lack of searching for a
fountain of life whose waters will quench human thirst; but in
vain. There is nothing that has not been tried, and yet always the
result has been the same: drought. Christ came to tell us of a way
in which our soul’s thirsts and cravings may all be satisfied.
Instead of crushing them within the heart, He would let them live,
and would find perfect satisfaction for them. We can never find
satisfaction until we have learned to love in a Christlike way, as
Christ loved us, giving our life as He did to be consumed in the
flame of love.

 In prayer, we talk to God; in the Bible, God speaks to us.

 There is a secret of living which, if people knew it, would make all
life easier for them. It may be stated thus — that as we take up
any duty and go forward with it, we shall receive the strength we
need to do it. 

 While we live we must be moving on. When we stop we begin to

die. Rest is necessary, but only to renew our strength that we may
press on again. An anchor is needful for a ship, but anchoring is
not a ship’s business; it is built for sailing. A man is made for
struggle and effort, not for ease and loitering.

 A Christian is one who believes on Christ. He has entrusted his

whole life, with its sin, its guilt, its ruin, its need, its security for
eternity, its redemption, cleansing and transformation, to the
hands of the mighty Saviour, the strong Son of God.

 Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the

measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-
 forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness
is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others.

 Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful

and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It
may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to
live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and
beautifully who dwell within its circle.

 When we break with the world, we must straightway bow before

Christ; indeed, we can be freed from the dominion of the old
master only by the coming into our hearts of the new. The only
way we can turn from sin is by turning to Christ.

 The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to

whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding
quiet refuge and peace in him.

 No man is truly great who is not gentle. Courage and strength and
truth and justness and righteousness are essential elements in a
manly character; but if all these are in a man and gentleness be
wanting, the life is sadly flawed.

 The test of love is service. The love which does not give and do the
utmost is not love.

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’

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