To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.
Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
God is with us, and His power is around us.
We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.