If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world.
Interpretation
Value spiritual trust over material wealth and social connections.
This quote emphasizes the importance of not becoming overly attached to wealth or even friendships, suggesting that true trust and rest should be placed in a higher power, specifically the living God. The message encourages individuals to seek inner peace and stability through spiritual faith rather than through external and often transient sources like money or social status.
In practice
During a sermon about the importance of relying on faith rather than wealth.
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.
You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.
Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.
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