Whether Men Are Pleased Or Not, We

I Am Not What I Ought To Be, I Am Not What I Want To Be, I Am Not What I Hope To Be In Another World; But Still I Am Not What I Once Used To Be, And By The Grace Of God I Am What I Am

I Know Not A Better Rule Of Reading The Scripture, Than To Read It Through From Beginning To End And When We Have Finished It Once, To Begin It Again. We Shall Meet With Many Passages Which We Can Make Little Improvement Of, But Not So Many In The Second Reading As In The First, And Fewer In The Third Than In The Second: Provided We Pray To Him Who Has The Keys To Open Our Understandings, And To Anoint Our Eyes With His Spiritual Ointment.

If Our Zeal Is Embittered By Expressions Of Anger, Invective, Or Scorn—we May Think We Are Doing Service Of The Cause Of Truth, When In Reality We Shall Only Bring It Into Discredit!

Whoever Is Truly Humbled — Will Not Be Easily Angry, Nor Harsh Or Critical Of Others. He Will Be Compassionate And Tender To The Infirmities Of His Fellow-sinners, Knowing That If There Is A Difference — It Is Grace Alone Which Has Made It! He Knows That He Has The Seeds Of Every Evil In His Own Heart. And Under All Trials And Afflictions — He Will Look To The Hand Of The Lord, And Lay His Mouth In The Dust, Acknowledging That He Suffers Much Less Than His Iniquities Have Deserved.

This Is Faith: A Renouncing Of Everything We Are Apt To Call Our Own And Relying Wholly Upon The Blood, Righteousness And Intercession Of Jesus.