A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

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glorious aspects? Do you desire to truly walk by the Spirit, not giving in to the pull of the world and the flesh? Do you yearn for God's balm to heal the wounds of the past? Would you like to face each day with quiet confidence and bold faith, fully prepared to cope with whatever it brings? All this and more—all the abundance of life promised by Christ—comes with surrender, my friend. For believers, surrendering to God is not a one-time occurrence;

There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.