Hurt not your conscience with any known sin.
S. RUTHERFORD

I think of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “I want it NOW!” How many times did I pray for something never realizing how truly awful for me it would have been to have received it!? Mercifully, our Lord knows what it best for us, because He holds the plans for our…
As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul’s shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of God. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI
This I Know
My Friend My friend, I stand in judgment nowAnd feel that you are to blame somehow.On earth I walked with you by dayAnd never did you point the way.You knew the Lord in truth and gloryBut never did you tell the story.My knowledge then was very dim,You could have led me safe to Him.Though we…
Thou that hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, a grateful heart. Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if thy blessings had spare days; But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise. G. HERBERT
Abide in me; o’ershadow by Thy love Each half-formed purpose and dark thought of sin; Quench, ere it rise, each selfish, low desire, And keep my soul as Thine, calm and divine. Harriet Beecher Stowe