That Friend, Given To You By Circumstances

It Was Necessary For The Son To Disappear As An Outward Authority, In Order That He Might Reappear As An Inward Principle Of Life. Our Salvation Is No Longer God Manifested In A Christ Without Us, But As A " Christ Within Us, The Hope Of Glory.

The Mistake We Make Is To Look For A Source Of Comfort In Ourselves: Self-contemplation, Instead Of Gazing Upon God. In Other Words, We Look For Comfort Precisely Where Comfort Never Can Be.

Cold Hearts Are Not Anxious Enough To Doubt. Men Who Love Will Have Their Misgivings At Times; That Is Not The Evil. But The Evil Is, When Men Go On In That Languid, Doubting Way, Content To Doubt, Proud Of Their Doubts, Morbidly Glad To Talk About Them, Liking The Romantic Gloom Of Twilight, Without The Manliness To Say,--i Must And Will Know The Truth. That Did Not John. Brethren, John Appealed To Christ.

What The World Calls Virtue Is A Name And A Dream Without Christ. The Foundation Of All Human Excellence Must Be Laid Deep In The Blood Of The Redeemer's Cross, And In The Power Of His Resurrection.

It Is Not The Number Of Books You Read; Nor The Variety Of Sermons Which You Hear; Nor The Amount Of Religious Conversation In Which You Mix: But It Is The Frequency And The Earnestness With Which You Meditate On These Things, Till The Truth Which May Be In Them Becomes Your Own, And Part Of Your Own Being, That Ensures Your Spiritual Growth.