A Quiet Simple Life
Celebrating Faith, Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Hope
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“The just shall live by faith.” (Heb. 10:38). Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part …
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Satan’s Tools by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and, let us run with patience the race that is …
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“Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me” (Luke 7:23). It is sometimes very difficult not to be offended in Jesus Christ. The offenses may be …
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"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." …
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“Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece” (Judges 6:39). There are degrees to faith. At one stage of Christian experience we cannot believe unless …
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“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him…And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive …
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“It came to pass . . . that the brook dried up” (1 Kings 17:7). The education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, …
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“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (I Sam. 7:12). The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, …
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“And every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:2 A child of God was dazed by the variety of afflictions which …
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“He answered her not a word” (Matt. 15:23) “He will be silent in his love” (Zeph. 3:17) It may be a child of God is reading these words who has had …
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Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (John 11:40). Mary and Martha could not understand what their Lord was doing. Both …
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The Christian walk of faith is not without trials. Christians believe that God allows difficulties in the life of a believer for many purposes. As these great quotes about …
