Gold Nugget 132 - Out of the Heart

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      There must be passion in all true life.  As Mr. Ruskin truly says, “The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love learning; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after righteousness.

      Taste is not only a part and index of morality; it is the only morality.  The first and last and closest trial-question to any living creature is – What do you like?  Tell me what you like, and I’ll tell you what you are.”  Exactly!  So says the gospel.  “Out of the heart are the issues of life;”  “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  This is a true teaching, and may open up a new view of moral and spiritual life to the thoughtful mind. …

      You must watch life in its temper and spirit at all times and in all places.  You may be deceived by good actions. … Think of this.  Good actions do not make a good man; it is the good man that makes the good actions.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, I Timothy p. 17-18, I Timothy 1:5, (W. M. Statham)

 

Gold Nugget 132

Out of the Heart