I have been reading devotionals at night from "Streams in the Desert".  It was first published in 1925.  I have found a few quips that have moved me so I thought I'd share. 

          My blessed, fruitful, and victorious experiences of yesterday have no lingering on me today.  In fact, they can be "swallowed up" or reversed by today's failures, unless I see them as incentives to spur me on to even better and richer experiences today.

 This reminds me of our ladie's bible study and what Angela Thomas said about allowing God to speak the truth of the kingdom into the everyday moments of our lives.  My book refers to it as maintaining a "fresh touch with God" by abiding in Christ. 

Another quip I liked was about faith. 

      Faith is not conjuring up, through an act of your will, a sense of certainty that something is going to happen.  It's recognizing God's promise as an actual fact, believing it's true, rejoicing in the knowledge of that truth and then simply resting because God said it.