Quotes from Lettie B. Cowman

It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us. F. B. M.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ. When I was asleep, I dreamed of these things, and when I waked, the first thing I thought of was this great work.

Delays are not refusals; many a prayer is registered, and underneath it the words: "My time is not yet come." God has a set time as well as a set purpose, and He who orders the bounds of our habitation orders also the time of our deliverance.

Even if we confine our thinking to this life, it is true that God never touches the heart with a trial without intending to bestow a greater gift or compassionate blessing. The person who knows how to wait has grown to an exceptional degree in God's grace.

To be as immovable as a pillar in the house of our God, is an end for which one would gladly endure all the shakings that may be necessary to bring us there! HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

However dark the nows may be in your experience, the afters of God are worth waiting for! As we think of God's dealings with His children we are impressed with His leisureliness. God's ways may be hidden, but Wait for God's Afters!

Prayer that uses previously unanswered prayers as an excuse for laziness has already ceased to be a prayer of faith. To someone who prays in faith, unanswered prayers are simply the evidence that the answer is much closer. From beginning to end, our Lord's lessons and examples teach us that prayer that is not steadfast and persistent, nor revived and refreshed, and does not gather strength from previous prayers is not the prayer that will triumph. William Arthur

Got any rivers they say are uncrossable, Got any mountains they say "can't tunnel through"? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing the things they say you can't do. song of the Panama Canal builders

Yes, or no, is the hinge on which everything turns. Shall I yield and dishonor God, or shall I resist and triumph in His might? There is no possible compromise; for compromise with sin is itself the most insidious form of sin. No man can pass through these crises, and be after them what he was before. He has met God face to face, and he must either be the better or the worse for that experience.

A man once stood on a high peak of the Rocky Mountains watching a raging storm below. As he watched, an eagle came up through the clouds and soared away toward the sun. The water on its wings glistened in the sunlight like diamonds. If not for the storm, the eagle might have remained in the valley. In the same way, the sorrows of life cause us to rise toward God.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but simply taking God at His word. Christmas Evans The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. George Mueller

But let us never forget that the source of helping other people must be victorious suffering.

Then into His hand went mine, And into my heart came He; And I walk in a light Divine, The path I had feared to see. George MacDonald

Each of us may be sure that if God sends us over rocky paths, He will provide us with sturdy shoes. He will never send us on any journey without equipping us well. Alexander Maclaren

Every hard duty that lies in your path, that you would rather not do, that it will cost you pain and struggle or sore effort to do, has a blessing in it. Not to do it, at whatever cost, is to miss the blessing.

Being left alone by Satan is not evidence of being blessed.

Believe God's Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your

The colored sunsets and starry heavens, the beautiful mountains and the shining seas, the fragrant woods and painted flowers, are not half so beautiful as a soul that is serving Jesus out of love, in the wear and tear of common, unpoetic life. FABER

It is such a comfort to drop the entanglements and perplexities of life into God's hands and leave them there.

whatever stream their weeping willow is planted beside. Samuel Dickey Gordon When from my life the old-time joys have vanished,

God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us. F. B. M.

Oh, restless heart, that beat against your prison bars of circumstances, yearning for a wider sphere of usefulness, leave God to order all your days.

Premature deliverance may frustrate God's work of grace in your life. Just commit the whole situation to Him. Be willing to abide in darkness so long as you have His presence. Remember that it is better to walk in the dark with

Active faith gives thanks for a promise even though it is not yet performed, knowing that God's contracts are as good as cash. Matthew Henry