Music For the Soul

God's loving-kindness, or mercy, as I explained the word might be rendered, is precious, for that is the true meaning of the word translated " excellent." We are rich when we have that for ours; we are poor without it. The true wealth is to possess God's love, and to...

We are made with hearts that need to rest upon an absolute love; we are made with understandings that need to grasp a pure, a perfect, and, as I believe, paradoxical though it may sound, a personal Truth. We are made with wills that crave for an absolute authoritative command, and we are made with a moral nature that needs a perfect...

"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains." Like these, its roots are fast and stable; like these, it stands firm for ever; like these, its summits touch the fleeting clouds of human circumstance; like these, it is a shelter and a refuge, inaccessible in its steepest...

The sea of glass cannot be any part of the material creation, for the symbolism has provided for that otherwise. There seems to be but one explanation of it. and that is that it means the aggregate of the Divine dealings. " Thy judgments are a mighty deep." " Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and of the...

Weave the loving-kindness, or mercy, and faithfulness of ' God together, and see what a strong cord they are on which a man may hang, and in all his weakness be sure that it will never give nor break. Mercy might be transient and arbitrary, but when you braid in "faithfulness" along with it, it becomes fixed...

God's faithfulness is in its narrowest sense His adherence to promises. It implies, in that sense, a verbal revelation, and definite words from Him pledging Him to a certain line of action. " He hath said, and shall He not do it?" He will not alter the thing that is gone out of His lips. It is only a God who has actually spoken to men who can be a...

"Mercy " or " loving-kindness " in the Old Testament is ' very nearly equivalent to the New Testament "love"; or perhaps still more nearly equivalent to the New Testament "grace." Both the one and the other mean substantially this - active love communicating itself to the creatures that are inferior and that might have expected something else to...

Wherever a human nature is self-centered, God-forgetting, and therefore God-opposing (for whoever forgets God defies Him), that nature has gone down below humanity, and has touched the lower level of the brutes.

Men are so made as that they must either rise to the level of God or certainly go down to the level of the brute. And...

JOSEPH of Arimathea and Nicodemus learned to be ashamed of their cowardice, and their dumb lips learned to speak, and their shy, hidden love forced for itself a channel by which it could flow out into the light; because of Christ's death. And in...

How much Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lost! - all those three years of communion with the Master; all His teaching, all the stimulus of His example, all the joy of fellowship with Him! They might have had a treasure in their memories that would have enriched them for all their days, and...

The reasons for the unfaithfulness of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus are put by John in a very blunt fashion: "for fear of the Jews." That is not what we say to ourselves; some of us say, "Oh! I have got beyond outward organizations. I find it enough to be united to Christ. The Christian communities are very imperfect:...

In a society like ours, in which the influence of Christian affects a great many people who have no personal connection with Christ, it is not always enough that the life should preach, because over a very large field of ordinary daily life the underground...

While Christ lived, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus had been unfaithful to their convictions; but His death, which terrified and paralyzed and...

There is no royal road into the sweetness and the depth of Christ's love for the wise or the prudent. The understanding is no more the organ for apprehending the love of Christ than is the ear the organ for perceiving light, or the...