An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord so bitter is the root of self.