Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.