The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.
– F.B. Meyer
Prayer
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
– F.B. Meyer
Prayer | Peace | Bitterness
Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation | Endurance | Weakness
If there be, therefore, perpetual failure in your life, it cannot arise from any weakness or impotence in the Mighty God; but from some failure on your part. That failure may probably be discovered in one of three hiding places–imperfect surrender, deficient faith; or neglected communion. But when the intention of the soul is right with God, without doubt He will save.
– F.B. Meyer
Encouragement | Surrender | Failure
God has set Eternity in our heart, and man’s infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense.
– F.B. Meyer
Eternity | Time
The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.
– F.B. Meyer
Church | Missions
Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.
– F.B. Meyer
Prayer | Waiting
In the sequel of our life’s story we shall see that there was a meaning and necessity in all the previous incidents, save those which were the result of our own folly and sin, and that even these have been made to contribute to the final result.
– F.B. Meyer
Life
“Amplius” means broader, fuller, wider. That is God’s perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon.
– F.B. Meyer
The Holy Spirit | Blessings
We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible.
– F.B. Meyer
Perseverance
God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst… will be quiet in the middle of alarm.
– F.B. Meyer
Fear | The Heart
A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good.
– F.B. Meyer
God | Life | Providence
Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation | Scripture
Your foes may be numerous as the devils in hell, strong and wily; but He will save.
– F.B. Meyer
Mercy
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.
– F.B. Meyer
Life
Tears are the material out of which heaven weaves its brightest rainbow.
– F.B. Meyer
Anxiety
Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money’s worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him – His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.
– F.B. Meyer
Atonement | Consecration
Sin is the act of the will, and is only possible when the will assents to some unholy influence.
– F.B. Meyer
Sin
You will tell the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.
– F.B. Meyer
Death
It is impossible to be our best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily inconsistency, unfaithfulness, and besetting sin.
– F.B. Meyer
Character
Jesus Christ came into the world to glorify the Father, and the Holy Ghost came into the world to glorify the Son.
– F.B. Meyer
The Holy Spirit
The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
– F.B. Meyer
Prayer
Let each of us learn to abide in Christ with the heart open to Him on the one hand, and open to men, women and children on the other.
– F.B. Meyer
Charity | The Heart
Hand over to Christ every temptation and care.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation
But temptation is not sin. A man may ask me to share with him the spoils of a burglary, but no one can accuse me of receiving stolen property if I indignantly refuse and keep my doors tightly shut against him.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation
Faith is more than Creed.
– F.B. Meyer
Faith
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.
– F.B. Meyer
Perseverance | Obedience | Circumstances
Be indifferent to emotion. If it is there, be thankful; if it is absent, go on doing the will of God, reckoning on Him, speaking well of Him behind His back, and, above all, giving no signs of what you are suffering, lest you be a stumbling block to others.
– F.B. Meyer
Suffering | Thankfulness
Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about everything.
– F.B. Meyer
Consecration
Yours will be the wings of an eagle’s flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy – in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
– F.B. Meyer
Holiness | Prayer | The Bible
As the weights of the clock, or the ballast in the vessel, are necessary for their right ordering, so is trouble in the soul-life.
– F.B. Meyer
Suffering
Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our will.
– F.B. Meyer
Consecration | Feelings
What is sin? It is the “Yes of the will” to temptation.
– F.B. Meyer
Temptation
Faith bears Fruit. It cannot help it, because it links the soul with Christ, so that the energy of His life pours into it through the artery of faith, and, as it comes in, so it must make a way for itself out.
– F.B. Meyer
Faith
Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale.
– F.B. Meyer
Grace
I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grow in Christian character the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God’s gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower.
– F.B. Meyer
Humility
The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine show-solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary’s wheel; the noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight.
– F.B. Meyer
God
When we are born again, a new life – the life of God – is put into us by the Holy Spirit. But the old self-life, which is called in Scripture the flesh, is not taken away. The two may coexist in the same heart. “The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
– F.B. Meyer
The Holy Spirit | Conversion
The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
– F.B. Meyer
Salvation
The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice.
– F.B. Meyer
Character
God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
– F.B. Meyer
Life
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
– F.B. Meyer
Sin | Salvation
May we not only be delivered from the outward act or word that grieves Thee, but may the very springs of our nature be purified!
– F.B. Meyer
Holiness
We must be still before God.
– F.B. Meyer
Prayer
When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.
– F.B. Meyer
Service
Confess sin instantly.
– F.B. Meyer
Sin | Confession