Riches Are A Blessing Or A Curse

By The Light Of Nature We See God As A God Above Us, By The Light Of The Law We See Him As A God Against Us, But By The Light Of The Gospel We See Him As Emmanuel, God With Us.

A Modest Dress Is A Very Good Thing, If It Be The Genuine Indication Of A Humble Heart, And Is To Instruct; But It Is A Bad Thing If It Be The Hypocritical Disguise Of A Proud Ambitious Heart, And Is To Deceive. Let Men Be Really As Good As They Seem To Be, But Not Seem To Be Better Than Really They Are.

In Order To The Attaining Of All Useful Knowledge This Is Most Necessary, That We Fear God; We Are Not Qualified To Profit By The Instructions That Are Given Us Unless Our Minds Be Possessed With A Holy Reverence Of God, And Every Thought Within Us Be Brought Into Obedience To Him.... As All Our Knowledge Must Take Rise From The Fear Of God, So It Must Tend To It As Its Perfection And Centre. Those Know Enough Who Know How To Fear God, Who Are Careful In Every Thing To Please Him And Fearful Of Offending Him In Any Thing; This Is The Alpha And Omega Of Knowledge.

Were We To Think More Of Our Own Mistakes And Offences, We Should Be Less Apt To Judge Other People.

Riches Are A Blessing Or A Curse To A Man According As He Has Or Has Not A Heart To Make Good Use Of Them.