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Faith By Its Very Nature Must Be Tried, And The Real Trial Of Faith Is Not That We Find It Difficult To Trust God, But That God's Character Has To Be Cleared In Our Own Minds. Faith In Its Actual Working Out Has To Go Through Spells Of Unsyllabled Isolation. Never Confound The Trial Of Faith With The Ordinary Discipline Of Life. Much That We Call The Trial Of Faith Is The Inevitable Result Of Being Alive.

The Bible Talks Plentifully About Joy, But It Nowhere Talks About A 'happy Christian.' Happiness Depends On What Happens; Joy Does Not. Remember, Jesus Christ Had Joy, And He Prayed 'that They Might Have My Joy Fulfilled In Themselves.'

One Of The Greatest Strains In Life Is The Strain Of Waiting For God.

Sanctification Costs To The Extent Of "an Intense Narrowing Of All Our Interests On Earth And An Immense Broadening Of All Our Interests In God.

Holiness Is The Balance Between My Nature And The Law Of God As Expressed In Jesus Christ.