There is one art of which every man should be a master ---- the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? Samuel Coleridge.
Blessed is the man....[whose] delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night(Psalm 1a, 2).
A hymn to read, sing, hum or whistle to the glory of God: Blessed is the Man (MIchael Boughan, 1969).
Little things. Not for this mighty world, O Lord, tonight, nations and kingdoms in their fearful might --- let me be glad the kettle gently sings, let me be glad for little things. ---- Edna Jaques.
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew6:26).
A hymn to read, sing, hum or whistle to the glory of God: Consider the Lilies (Grace Hawthorne, 1977).
In Christianity there can be no divorce of religion from morality ---- justification and sanctification are forever united. ---- The heathen notion of religion as something apart from moral life, is forever thrust out of our sight by the Gospel. ---- M. Valentine.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men(Romans 14:17-18).
A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle to the glory of God: Love Divine, All Loves excelling (Charles Wesley, 1747).
Give us the man of integrity, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend; who will stand firm when others fail; the friend, faithful and true; the adviser, honest and fearless; the adversary, just and chivalrous; such an one is a fragment of the Rock of Ages. -----J. P. Stanley
I am speaking the truth in Christ ---- I am not lying, my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit.... (Romans 9:1).
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God (II Corinthians 4:1-2).
Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart (Psalm 86:11).
A hymn to read, sing, hum or whistle to the glory of God: Teach Me, O Lord, Thy Holy Way(William T. Matson, 1866).
What then is the nature of true liberty? Not being free to do anything you want to do, but in coming to the place where you delight in the performance of what you ought to do. ---- Al Martin.
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love (Galatians 5:13).
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9)
A hymn to read, sing, hum or whistle to the glory of God: Go, Labor On (Horatius Bonar, 1843).
Death is a blessing. Death is not so much something which happens to the Christian as something God works for him. ---- J. Alec Motyer
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed ---- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory" (I Corinthians 15:51-54).
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints (Psalm 116:15).
A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle to the glory of God:When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder(James M. Black, 1856-1938).
