From Day to Day; Or, Helpful Words for Christian Life: Daily Readings for a Year

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T. Nelson, 1879 - 648 páginas

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The holier our life the happier
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Trustful stillness
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When to be prompt
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Stumbling overruled for stablishing
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Even finders may still be seekers XX The Lord tries his people but never overtries them
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The sacred fire that must not be quenched
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Sickness and sin
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He is beyond measure rich who can say My God
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The true secret of strength
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Hopeful thirst
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Though we know little our loving Lord knows all
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To be unforgiving is to be unforgiven
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The perfect love
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No king rewards the loyal like Christ
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Shall we know each other in heaven?
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The Bible of our Lord
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We are never so Christlike as when with loving sympathy we remem
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March
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The life of the Church is a mystery to the world
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The Lord sees countless ways of relief when we can see none
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Darkness preferred to light
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Repetitions may be needful
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Christs double Sonship
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April
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The Lordsday is ever a loved day with his people
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To deal hopefully with the fallen we must deal tenderly
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Our need and Gods supply
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When we keep near the Lord we never fail to get his ear
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We are never so really rich as when rich in liberality
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The much commendable yet the much lacking in the church
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Usually as opportunities are improved they multiply
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What we mainly need
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The once dead but now risen
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We cannot be loyal to the Lord if disloyal to his word
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Even the strong are weak
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Gods promises though often forgotten on earth are never forgotten in heaven
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Every saint is the Saviours and a prized possession
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When God is about to work greatly by us he first works greatly in us
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The right and the wrong of anger and how to deal with it
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The Lords leadings however strange have always wise love in them
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We should be praiseful as well as prayerful
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We should never be staggered by apostasy from the faith however much we may be saddened by it
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Though all believers are risen men not one is selfrisen
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Though slighted by many Christ is everything to those who know him
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Much may intervene between the sowing and the reaping
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Selfcomplacent contentedness
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Christian consistency
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Fruitless effort 803
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When need is sorest comfort is sweetest
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The richly fruitful
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All goes well with us when the Lord is with us
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Flattering to deceive
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We dishonour the Giver when we despise the gifts
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Apostolic conflict
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Healing and helping
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Tried yet joyous receivers of the word
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The one offering of the one Priest
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We may render great service by silent messengers
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The nearer we keep to the Lord ourselves the abler we are to guide others to him
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Correction and suggestion happily blended
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It is well to remember what we once were
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In spite of bonds prison experiences have often been bright
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He who has a goodly heritage may well have a gladsome heart
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We are by nature not only deep but dead in sin
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Even little attentions may be helpful expressions of grace
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A real Word of God without mysteries would be the greatest mystery of all
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Patience though painful in exercise is precious in result
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Men may be thoroughly bond yet think themselves free
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Poverty is nothing if there be purity
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Nothing is so commendatory of the Master as consistent discipleship
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It is only the wisdom of grace that is wisdom indeed
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The coming day of days
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August
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Love in fullest revelation
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Love mastering fear and expelling it
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Precious as the Word is how few profit by it
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Whatever the cloudings now there will be light undimmed hereafter
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There is but one High Priest and no other is needed
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None are excluded from the Refuge who seek to enter in
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Shall the dead live again?
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However slow in coming deliverance will be marvellously complete when it comes
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None can overvalue the Son but many undervalue the Spirit
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True religion is a choice not a constraint
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Those who seem likeliest to come first to Christ often never come at all
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There can be no steady walking without divine upholding
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Strange requests sometimes come from wicked lips
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Salt must be in the right place and have the true savour
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The very holiness of Jesus is the hope of the unholy
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Those who waste time forget its brevity and how much depends on it
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Though it is well to praise the Lord even without song it is better still to praise him with it
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Rejecting the Word before reading it
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The troublers and the troubled
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The sad a likeness of men
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True cleansing
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We should fear dissensions and try to heal them
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When we stand near the Lord we are best able to stand fast
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We must put on charity
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Our Lords timely caution
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Real contentment is rare
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Forgiveness is never a solitary gift
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The promised presence of the God of peace
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Essentials in religion are ever first with the Lord and should be with us
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Mighty and willing to save
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Suppliants encouraged
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A mystery solved
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The true Sweetener of every bitter
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Resurrection and light
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The highest citizenship
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There is no gratitude like that which is heavenkindled
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After the partings will come meetings again
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What we can work out and what we cannot
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Great iniquity needs a great forgiveness and God gives it
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It is poor hearing that is not followed by hearty doing
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There is no training like Bible training
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It needs both care and prayer to keep hope bright
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A hopeful beginning may have a sorrowful ending
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To be strong we must be true
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There may be great love in granting recovery but sometimes love greater still in withholding it
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Sometimes the most hopeful of symptoms is a closed lip
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A true gospel ministry is a choice heavenly gift
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Beware of uncertain things
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Enrichment with better than gold
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The love in God and the enmity in man
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Treasure in earthen vessels
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The receiving of Christ and salvation
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Love refusing
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Continuance in the faith
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Conflict has no cessation here
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The chastening of the Lord is rarely welcomed however needed
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The great faith which honoured God and that God honoured
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The prayer offered on the night of nights
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Though we can destroy Gods image we cannot restore it again
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It is a snare to dwell rather on the little attainable in sanctification than on the much
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Guilt the greatest and grace the richest met on the cross
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There is no promisekeeper like the Lord
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The humbling failure of one disciple and the loving fidelity of another
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The disciples censure of Mary
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Confirmation needful
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The fulness that dwells in Christ warrants any amount of freeness in drawing from it
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When the times are eventful we cannot be too watchful
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The veil rent and the way opened
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Those oft in journeyings should be oft in prayer
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It is not little but large petitioning that the Lord most delights in
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When spoken in the Spirit even a single word is often savingly effectual
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We must test as well as listen
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Obedience has but little value if unlinked with the name of Jesus
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We must not lightly leave our spheres
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Trouble yet peace
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The Lords commendation of Mary
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Worthless yet welcome
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Men may be heavy losers without knowing
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The more spontaneous our beneficence the more precious
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It is pressure that tests men
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The unlikely bringers of our best things
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The fulfilment that must
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Prayerful mention XIX Inviting to dine XX The only fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness XXI The outcome of grace XXII Out of the kingd...
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