It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. - John Bunyan

Nor must thou think always to live by sense: thou must live upon my word. Thou must believe, O my Mansoul, when I am from thee, that yet I love thee, and bear thee upon mine heart for ever.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an
immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.