Springs in the Valley

by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

First published 50 years ago, this book was inspired by Psalm 104. Its metaphor is that God sends down water from the hills to nourish those in the valley. Mrs Cowman cautions readers not to depend on their own faith, but on God's faithfulness.

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Hardcover, 382 pages

Published November 30th 1992 by Zondervan Publishing Company (first published December 1959)

tags: christian, inspirational, christian non fiction

Book Quotes

“We are safer with Him in the dark than without Him in the sunshine.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“This is one of the dangers of sorrow: that in our grief for those who are gone we lose our interest in those who are living, and slacken our zeal in the work which is allotted to us.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, And skill a man, When God wants to mold a man To play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall be amazed, Watch His methods, watch His ways! How He ruthlessly perfects Whom He royally elects! How He hammers him and hurts him, And with mighty blows converts him Into trial shapes of clay which Only God understands; While his tortured heart is crying And he lifts beseeching hands! How He bends but never breaks When his good He undertakes; How He uses whom He chooses, And with every purpose fuses him; But every act induces him To try His splendor out— God knows what He’s about. SELECTED Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. GOETHE”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For the one will do what the other commands, although they are chilled to the bone; And both together can live through weather that neither could face alone. KIPLING”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“God has not forgotten you. He will as readily order about the forces of the universe on your account as He did on Noah’s. His plans for Noah were also plans for the whole world through Noah. So they are for you. He will use you for the good of the whole world if you will let Him. SELECTED We may forget; God does not! God’s time is never wrong, Never too fast nor too slow; The planets move to its steady pace As the centuries come and go. Stars rise and set by that time, The punctual comets come back With never a second’s variance, From the round of their viewless track. Men space their years by the sun, And reckon their months by the moon, Which never arrive too late And never depart too soon. Let us set our clocks by God’s, And order our lives by His ways, And nothing can come and nothing can go Too soon or too late in our day. ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT “There are no dates in His fine leisure.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“A drying well will often lead the spirit to the river that flows from the throne of God.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“The hour is desperately dark; your flame is needed.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“I stand upon the mount of God With sunlight in my soul; I hear the storms in vales beneath, I hear the thunders roll. But I am calm with Thee, my God, Beneath these glorious skies; And to the height on which I stand, No storms, nor clouds, can rise. Oh, THIS is life! Oh, this is joy! My God, to find Thee so; Thy face to see, Thy voice to hear, And all Thy love to know. HORATIUS BONAR”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“Others will be allowed to succeed in making money…but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, and that is a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. (1 Cor. 1:27)”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“We cannot go through life strong and fresh on constant express trains with ten minutes for lunch: we must have quiet hours, secret places of the Most High, times of waiting upon the Lord, when we renew our strength and learn to mount up on wings as eagles, and then come back to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“We climbed the height by the zigzag path And wondered why—until We understood it was made zigzag To break the force of the hill. A road straight up would prove too steep For the traveler’s feet to tread; The thought was kind in its wise design Of a zigzag path instead. It is often so in our daily life; We fail to understand That the twisting way our feet must tread By love alone was planned. Then murmur not at the winding way, It is our Father’s will To lead us Home by the zigzag path, To break the force of the hill. ANONYMOUS” ― Lettie B. Cowman, Springs in the Valley”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“Pascal said: “One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“Keep still! When trouble is brewing, keep still! When slander is getting on its legs, keep still! When your feelings are hurt, keep still till you recover from your excitement at any rate! Things look different through an unagitated eye.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“However dark the nows may be in your experience, the afters of God are worth waiting for! As we think of God’s dealings with His children we are impressed with His leisureliness. God’s ways may be hidden, but Wait for God’s Afters!”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

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― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“Yes, or no, is the hinge on which everything turns. Shall I yield and dishonor God, or shall I resist and triumph in His might? There is no possible compromise; for compromise with sin is itself the most insidious form of sin. No man can pass through these crises, and be after them what he was before. He has met God face to face, and he must either be the better or the worse for that experience.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“Three stages of that work are strikingly set forth by Hudson Taylor when he says: “Commonly there are three stages in work for God: Impossible, Difficult, Done!” Said General William Booth, “God loves with a special love the man who has a passion for the impossible.” Are you confronting today the impossible in work for God? Praise Him for that, because you are in a way to discover the blessing of finding that work difficult, and then to experience the deep joy of finding it done, by the same Lord who started you on the furrow.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

“A moment in the morning ere the cares of the day begin, Ere the heart’s wide door is open for the world to enter in; Ah, then, alone with Jesus, in the silence of the morn, In heavenly sweet communion, let your happy day be born; In the quietude that blesses with a prelude of repose, Let your soul be soothed and softened as the dew revives the rose.”

― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

Lettie Cowman was a Wesleyan missionary to Japan who, with her husband Charles E. Cowman, co-founded the Oriental Missionary Society in 1901 for church planting in most of the world outside North America.

Her books are devotionals she compiled from sermons, readings, writings, and poetry that she had encountered.

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