Lorraine Morrissey ’s Reviews > Keeping the Heart: How to Maintain Your Love for God > Status Update

"O my heart, where hast thou been today, and what has engaged thy thoughts?"

"It was a memorable saying of Valentinian the emperor, when he was about to die: 'Amongst all my conquests, there is but one that now comforts me.' Being asked what that was, he answered, 'I have overcome my worst enemy, my own sinful heart!'"

"'If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.' It was an argument urged by the Christians to prove their religion to be supernatural and pure, that it forbids revenge . . . Awe your heart, then, with the authority of God in the Scriptures; and when carnal reason says, 'My enemy deserves to be hated,' let conscience reply, 'But doth God deserve to be disobeyed?' . . ."