15 Quotes by John Baillie

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes;Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of the open acres and the green trees;Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky:Forbid that when all Thy creatures are greeting the morning with songs and shouts of joy, I alone should wear a dull and sullen face.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

ETERNAL Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of you, let my first impulse be to worship you, let my first word be your Name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds...

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?

Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is conceived among us in the spirit of Christ and carried out to the honour of His blessed name. Amen.