They Who Sow Courtesy Reap

To Lovers Of The Truth, Nothing Can Be Put Before God And Hope In Him.

God Who Created Us Has Granted Us The Faculty Of Speech That We Might Disclose The Counsels Of Our Hearts To One Another And That, Since We Possess Our Human Nature In Common, Each Of Us Might Share His Thoughts With His Neighbor, Bringing Them Forth From The Secret Recesses Of The Heart As From A Treasury.

What Is There Astonishing In The Death Of A Mortal? But We Are Grieved At His Dying Before His Time. Are We Sure That This Was Not His Time? We Do Not Know How To Pick And Choose What Is Good For Our Souls, Or How To Fix The Limits Of The Life Of Man.

As The Pilot Of A Vessel Is Tried In The Storm; As The Wrestler Is Tried In The Ring, The Soldier In The Battle, And The Hero In Adversity: So Is The Christian Tried In Temptation.

Lust Hath These Three Companions: The First, Blindness Of Understanding; The Second, Hardness Of Heart; The Third, Want Of Grace.