If God Were Not To Test Us,

Justification By Faith Is The Hinge On Which All True Religion Turns.

No One In This Earthly Prison Of The Body Has Sufficient Strength Of His Own To Press Forward With A Due Degree Of Watchfulness, And The Great Majority [of Christians] Are Kept Down With Such Great Weakness That They Stagger And Halt And Even Creep On The Ground, And So Make Very Slight Advances.

No One Will Calmly And Quietly Submit To Bear The Cross Except Those Who Have Learned To Seek Their Happiness Beyond This World.

We Shall Never Be Fit For The Service Of God, If We Look Not Beyond This Fleeting Life.

For What Is Idolatry If Not This: To Worship The Gifts In Place Of The Giver Himself?