Righteousness | Women of Christianity

“I entreat you, give no place to despondency. This is a dangerous temptation–a refined, not a gross temptation of the adversary. Melancholy contracts and withers the heart, and renders it unfit to receive the impressions of grace. It magnifies and gives a false colouring to objects, and thus renders your burdens too heavy to bear. God’s designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.” – Madame Guyon

Righteousness

Against Pride In Clothes by Isaac Watts

Published July 11, 2011 |

By womenofchristianity

Why should our garments, made to hide
Our parents’ shame, provoke our pride?
The art of dress did ne’er begin… Continue reading →

Posted in Eve, Isaac Watts, Poems/Hymns |

Tagged Grace, Humility, Modesty, Old Garments, Righteousness, Truth |

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