Despair is part of love.
We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.
If I have an iPod, I'm good.
When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans.
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.