One good deed is of more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. There is no purer or more thrilling delight to be known this side of heaven than that of having Christ’s joy fulfilled in us, that our joy may be full. Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. We have no other time in which to live. The past is gone; the future has not arrived; we never shall have any time but time present. The Holy Spirit permits
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