by J.C. Ryle
There is nothing hidden from the Lord’s eyes. There are no secrets with Him. Alone or in company, by night or by day, in private or in public, He is acquainted with all our ways. He who saw Nathanael under the fig-tree is unchanged. Go where we will, and retire from the world as we may, we are never out of sight of Christ.
by J.C. Ryle
by James Smith
"Paul’s Seven Wishes" 1856
Paul’s next all-absorbing desire was to be WITH Christ!
Paul dearly loved his work. He was greatly attached to the church–which needed his presence, gifts, and labors. He deeply sympathized with poor perishing sinners–who needed the gospel.
But such was his love to Jesus, that he felt himself in a great strait,
