You Have Reason To Wonder That You

He That Lives A Prayerless Life, Lives Without God In The World.

Of All The Knowledge That We Can Ever Obtain, The Knowledge Of God, And The Knowledge Of Ourselves, Are The Most Important.

Resolved, To Confess Frankly To Myself All That Which I Find In Myself, Either Infirmity Or Sin; And, If It Be What Concerns Religion, Also To Confess The Whole Case To God, And Implore Needed Help.

If We Make A Great Show Of Respect And Love To God, In The Outward Actions, While There Is No Sincerity In The Heart, It Is But Hypocrisy And Practical Lying Unto The Holy One.

Immediately Upon The Fall, The Mind Of Man Shrank From Its Primitive Greatness And Expandedness, To An Exceeding Smallness And Contractedness... Before, His Soul Was Under The Government Of The Noble Principles Of Divine Love, Whereby It Was Enlarged To The Comprehensiveness Of All His Fellow Creatures And Their Welfare... [but] Sin, Like Some Powerful Astringent, Contracted His Soul To The Very Small Dimensions Of Selfishness, And God Was Forsaken, And Man Retired Within Himself, And Became Totally Governed By Narrow And Selfish Principles And Feelings.