Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
Interpretation
Seek daily comfort and guidance through your faith.
This quote emphasizes the importance of regularly engaging with one's spirituality to find solace and inspiration in the teachings of God. It suggests that every day should include a moment of reflection or connection that brings comfort to the soul, underscoring the notion that spiritual nourishment is essential for a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a sermon about finding peace in God's words, the pastor quoted John Knox to inspire the congregation.
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
A man with God is always in the majority.
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.
Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
Prayer unites the soul to God.
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
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