Strength & Perseverance
God is pledged to give strength for all duties which He sets, but not for the burdens which we elect to take on as well.
We become weak by continual contact with our fellows; but in loneliness and solitude, wherein we meet God, we become strong.
The strength of a man is in proportion to the feelings which he curbs and subdues, and not which subdue him.
Divine power pours into the spirit which is lifted up to Him in prayer and trust. Angel hands are stretched out to hold back the erring feet. A holy garrison is put inside the weak and trembling nature to hold it against the foe.
The perpetual filling of the Holy Spirit is only possible to those who obey Him, and who obey Him in all things. There is nothing trivial in this life. By the neglect of slight commands, a soul may speedily get out of the sunlit circle and lose the gracious plentitude of Spirit-power.
What the full stream is to the mill-wheel, that the Holy Spirit is to the Church.
Sin can no more stand against the presence of the Holy Ghost than darkness can resist the gentle, all-pervasive beams of morning light.
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