Those That Go Gold Into The Furnace

See What A Hidden Life The Life Of A Good Christian Is, And How Much It Is Concealed From The Eye And Observation Of The World. The Most Important Part Of The Business Lies Between God And Our Own Souls, In The Frame Of Our Spirits And The Working Of Our Hearts, In Our Actions That No Eye Sees Except The All-seeing God. Justly Are The Saints Called God's Hidden Ones, And His Secret Is Said To Be With Them. They Have Meat To Eat And Work To Do That The World Does Not Know Of, As Well As Joys, Griefs, And Cares That A Stranger Does Not Share.

God Cannot Be Represented By An Image. We Ought Not To Think That The Godhead Is Like Unto Gold, Or Silver, Or Stone, Graven By Art And Man's Device. We Wrong God, And Put An Affront Upon Him, If We Think So. God Honoured Man In Making His Soul After His Own Likeness; But Man Dishonours God If He Makes Him After The Likeness Of His Body. The Godhead Is Spiritual, Infinite, Immaterial, Incomprehensible, And Therefore It Is A Very False And Unjust Conception Which An Image Gives Us Of God.

The Sentences In The Book Of Providence Are Sometimes Long, And You Must Read A Great Way Before You Understand Their Meaning.

We Have No Sufficient Strength Of Our Own. All Our Sufficiency Is Of God. We Should Stir Up Ourselves To Resist Temptations In A Reliance Upon God's All-sufficiency And The Omnipotence Of His Might.

Man Takes A Great Deal Of Pains To Heap Up Riches, And They Are But Like Heaps Of Manure In The Furrows Of The Field, Good For Nothing Unless They Be Spread.