Bible Verses for Living in the Presence of God

Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.

I SAMUEL 15, verse 22.


Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you today.

EXODUS 14, verse 13.


The folded hands seem idle:
If folded at His word,
'Tis a holy service, trust me,
In obedience to the Lord.

ANNA SHIPTON.


It is not the multitude of hard duties,
it is not constraint and contention
that advance us in our Christian course.
On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills
without restriction and without choice,
to tread cheerfully every day
in the path in which Providence leads us,
to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing,
to see our duty in the present moment,
to trust all else without reserve to
the will and power of God.

FRANCOIS DE LA MOTHE FENELON.


Godliness is the devotion of the soul
to God, as to a living person whose
will is to be its law, whose love
is to be its life. It is the habit of living
before the face of God, and not
the simply doing certain things.

J. B. BROWN.