"Aye", said an old lady to a famous preacher once, "if God hadn't loved me before I came into the world, He would have found nothing in me to love since I have been here."
One of the martyrs, when being led to the stake, was urged to recant, and as a motive to induce him to do so it was said to him – "Life is sweet and death is bitter." "That is true," said the man, "Life is sweet and death is bitter, but eternal life is sweeter and eternal death more bitter."
A passenger, who had been looking with great interest at "the man at the wheel" as he was directing the course of a steamboat through the windings of an intricate channel, said to him – "I suppose, sir, you have been the pilot of this boat for many years now." "Yes, for many years," said the pilot. "And I suppose by this time, then," the enquirer continued, "you must know every rock and sandbar and shoal on the whole route." "No, I don't," said the pilot, "not by a long way." "You don't!" said the man, "then what do you know.?" "I know where the deep water is," said the pilot, "and there I steer."
Our safety does not depend on knowing the nature of things unknowable, but in knowing Christ.
Be peaceable to all, and helpful; but peace must not be bought with the sale of truth. We trust God with our souls; He trusts us with His truth.
Remember – he who renounces the truth of God renounces the God of truth!
Go not one step out of God's true way, even though a lion be in that way. Keep to God's highway and avoid crooked paths. A man may as well expect to find heaven in hell itself than expect to find heaven in a sinful way.
