Sublime

brevity which is the soul of wit.

Lewis will not let his readers forget that good thought is dynamic thought and it must not become stagnant.

The psalmist’s cry is one of praise, thanks, admonition, testimony and confidence— praise that God glorifies his grace by giving men so precious a gift as his word; thanks because he knows how much he himself needed it, and how lost he was without it; admonition to himself and any who might read his psalm always to value God’s word at its true

The crux of the problem involved in the practical application of this verse lies in our interpretation of the two words “for good.” The “good” promised by God in His long-sighted love may not always seem good and acceptable to us.

you don’t believe the gospel of grace, says Edwards, if you believe you’re saved by your works, then you’ve never done anything for the love of others or for the sheer beauty of it; you’ve done it for yourself. You haven’t helped the proverbial little old lady across the street just for her sake—or in the end, for God’s sake. You’ve done it because

That which keeps men off is, that they know not Christ’s mind and heart. . . . The truth is, he is more glad of us than we can be of him. The father of the prodigal was the forwarder of the two to that joyful meeting. Have you a mind? He that came down from heaven, as himself says in the text, to die for you, will meet you more than halfway, as the

Oliver Wendell Holmes