Growth Is The Only Evidence Of Life.

You Must Make Up Your Mind To The Prospect Of Sustaining A Certain Measure Of Pain And Trouble In You'r Passage Through Life.

It's Really Not A Difficult Decision When You Reflect On It, ... The Situation Is Just So Tenuous With Where It's Going To Hit. You Don't Want To Take Any Chances.

Now What Is It That Moves Our Very Hearts And Sickens Us So Much At Cruelty Shown To Poor Brutes?.. They Have Done Us No Harm And They Have No Power Of Resistance... There Is Something So Very Dreadful, So Satanic, In Tormenting Those Who Have Never Harmed Us, Who Cannot Defend Themselves, Who Are Utterly In Our Power.

Without Self-knowledge You Have No Root In Yourselves Personally; You May Endure For A Time, But Under Affliction Or Persecution Your Faith Will Not Last. This Is Why Many In This Age (and In Every Age) Become Infidels, Heretics, Schismatics, Disloyal Despisers Of The Church. They Cast Off The Form Of Truth, Because It Never Has Been To Them More Than A Form. They Endure Not, Because They Never Have Tasted That The Lord Is Gracious; And They Never Have Had Experience Of His Power And Love, Because They Have Never Known Their Own Weakness And Need.

Reason Is God's Gift, But So Are The Passions. Reason Is As Guilty As Passion.