faith

Therefore we do not give up. d Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person e is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary light affliction f is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. g 18 So we do not focus on what is seen, h but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is u

Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. h 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

A man is the sum of his parts and his character the sum of the traits that compose it.

Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.

mean ”What is God like in Himself ?” there is no answer. If we mean ”What has God disclosed about Himself that the reverent reason can comprehend?” there is, I believe, an answer both full and satisfying.

His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in Himself.

”As nothing is more easy than to think,” says Thomas Traherne, ”so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

“Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man” (Eccles. 12:13).