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“If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and just let them happen.”
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“Hypocrites are very much strangers to the delights and pleasures of religion. And they are altogether so, for it is a joy which they do not intermeddle with. Counterfeit piety can never bring true pleasure. He that acts a part upon a stage, though it may be the part of one that is ever so pleasant, though he may exhibit the pleasantness well, yet he does not experience it. The pleasures of God’s house do not lie in the outer courts, but within the veil.”
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
“A hypocrite may have some transitory pleasure in religion from a land-flood of sensible affections, yet he does not have the least taste of the “river of God’s pleasures” (Psalm 36:8).”
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
“And as to the pleasure of a scholar removed from religion, it is indeed rational and intellectual; but it is only the pleasure of the mind in knowing truths, and not its enjoying good. Solomon, who had as much of this pleasure as ever any man has had, and as nice a taste of it, yet has assured us from his own experience that in much wisdom of this kind is much grief, and “he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow” (Ecclesiastes 1:18). But the pleasures which a holy soul has in knowing God and in communion with him are not only of a spiritual nature, but they are satisfying; they fill the soul, and make a happiness adequate to its best affections.”
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
“Those whose hearts are not right with God in their religion cannot have the pleasures of communion with God. For it is only the soul that converses with God.”
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
― The Pleasantness of a Religious Life
“Bizler altımızda bir fırın ile yaşıyoruz, bu da insan olmanın beklenmedik ve heyecanlı yönlerinden biri...”
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