rrtulla on Nostr: “Outward things can no more cure the agony of conscience than a silken stocking can ...
“Outward things can no more cure the agony of conscience than a silken stocking can cure a gouty leg. When Saul was sore distressed (1 Sam. 28:15), could all the jewels of his crown comfort him? If God be angry, whose ‘fury is poured out like a fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him’ (Nahum 1:6), can a wedge of gold be a screen to keep off this fire? ‘They shall cast their silver in the streets; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord,’ (Ezek. 7:19).… The things of the world will no more keep out trouble of spirit, than a paper screen will keep out a bullet” —Thomas Watson
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