Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
Free will is an empty term.
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.