The Life of David Quotes

“He would take no mean advantage of his adversary. He would not retaliate or avenge his wrong. He refused to admit the specious argument that opportunity meant permission, and that licence meant liberty. He quieted the impetuous fever of his soul, resisted the subtle temptation of the adversary, and elected to await the slow unfolding of the Divine”
― F.B. Meyer, David Shepherd, Psamist, King

“We prefer to say that God permits evil spirits to fasten on souls which have refused Him, as vultures on the carcase from which life has fled. We go farther, and say that God”
― F.B. Meyer, David Shepherd, Psamist, King

“No one can know the day or hour when God passes by, seeking for chosen vessels and goodly pearls. When least expecting it, we are being scrutinized, watched, tested, in daily commonplaces, to see if we shall be faithful in more momentous issues. Let us be always on the alert, our loins girt, our lamps burning, our nets mended and cleansed.”
― F.B. Meyer, David: Shepherd, Psalmist, King

“But a good understanding, which is moral rather than intellectual, casts a glow of beauty over the plainest features.”
― F.B. Meyer, David Shepherd, Psamist, King

“There are four kinds of greatness; young men, choose the best for your life aim I It is little to be great in possessing; better to be great in doing; better still to conceive and promulgate great thoughts; but best to be great in character. Aim at the greatness of which Heaven takes account. It was where Self-mastery, Holy Ghost Fulness, and Service to mankind met, that the angel said, “He shall be great in the sight of the Lord.”
― F.B. Meyer, David Shepherd, Psamist, King

“of the world. He has many a time cast his javelin at the King after God’s own heart. In the Temptation and in Gethsemane he would fain have pinned Him to the wall. All through the present age he has been doing his worst to exterminate the incipient hidden Kingdom of Jesus, though he knows that God has destined it to take the place of his own. But all his attempts must fail. As Saul fell on the field of Gilboa, so the prince of darkness shall be finally cast into the bottomless pit.”
― F.B. Meyer, David Shepherd, Psamist, King