Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.