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"[If your love] is so unsound that, contrary to the commandment, it bows to flattery, flinches under fear, is upset by sadness, shriveled by avarice, entangled by ambition, disquieted by suspicions, tormented by insults, exhausted by anxieties, puffed up by honors, consumed by envy . . . . If you discover this chaos in your own interior, what madness drives you to insinuate yourself into other people's business?"

"Today there are many in the church who act like canals rather than reservoirs. They want to pour forth before they have been filled; they are more ready to speak than to listen, impatient to teach what they have not grasped, and full of presumption to govern others while they know not how to govern themselves." - Sermon 18

Sermon 14.III-IV on the name of Jesus as oil poured out is beautiful 😍

"Therefore, while offering up the sacrifice of praise . . . let us make every endeavor to put meaning into our observance, to fill the meaning with love, our love with joy and our joy with realism; let that realism be tempered with humility and our humility be buoyant with liberty."

“For it is not a melody that resounds abroad but the very music of the heart, not a trilling on the lips but an inward pulsing of delight, a harmony not of voices but of wills.”

Sadly, the introduction doesn’t count towards my page progress.