There Is No Joy In The World

There Are Two Great Days In A Person's Life - The Day We Are Born And The Day We Discover Why.

So Long As We Judge Ourselves By Human Comparisons, There Is Plenty Of Room For Self-satisfaction, And Self-satisfaction Kills Faith, For Faith Is Born Of The Sense Of Need. But When We Compare Ourselves With Jesus Christ, And Through Him, With God, We Are Humbled To The Dust, And Then Faith Is Born, For There Is Nothing Left To Do But To Trust To The Mercy Of God.

It May Well Be A Sign Of The Decadence Of The Church And The Failure Of Christianity That Gifts Have To Be Coaxed Out Of People, And That Often They Will Not Give At All Unless They Get Something For Their Money In The Way Of Entertainment Or Of Goods. Giving Which Is Real Giving Has A Certain Recklessness In It.

To Repent Means To Realize That The Kind Of Life We Are Living Is Wrong And That We Must Adopt A Completely New Set Of Values. To That End, It Involves Two Things. It Involves Sorrow For What We Have Been And It Involves The Resolve That By The Grace Of God We Will Be Changed.

The Word Grace Emphasizes At One And The Same Time The Helpless Poverty Of Man And The Limitless Kindness Of God.