F. B. Meyer Quotes
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.
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The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
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The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
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The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
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I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
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The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
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God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.
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When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
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Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
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Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.
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Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.
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The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.
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God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.
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There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.
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Go on day by day fulfilling the task of the day, and leaving the results with God.
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I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.
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We must be still before God.
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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.