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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
It is a religion of principle that God wants from us, not one of mere feeling.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
You cannot will to possess the spirit of Christ; that must come as His gift, but you can choose to study His life, and to imitate it.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
We must be wise task-masters, and not require of ourselves what we can not possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's-self, not a cloak put on to go to church and hang up out of the way against next Sunday.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings towards Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just so far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it, you love Him.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
"Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys — sickness destroying the flavor of them all — did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him — this is all.
Stepping Heavenward (1869)