We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. - Alfred Edersheim
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
- Alfred Edersheim
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calli… - Alfred Edersheim
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calli…
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. - Alfred Edersheim
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self. - Alfred Edersheim
So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil. - Alfred Edersheim
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such s… - Alfred Edersheim
There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such s…
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