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The love of your heart...
If you do not give to God your heart, you have given him nothing.
If you do not give to God your soul, if you do not love him, if
you do not serve him because you love him, if you do not come
to him, and surrender to him your inner self, you may have
been baptized, — immersed or sprinkled, — you may have come to
the communion table; you may have bowed your knees until your
knees have grown horny, you may have prayed until you are hoarse,
and wept until the fountains of your eyes are dry, you may have
given all your gold, and lacerated every member of your body with
mortifications, and starved yourself to a skeleton- but you have
truly done nothing towards obtaining love to Christ.
The substance of your house is utterly scorned if you offer
it to the Lord in the stead of the love of your heart.
Love he must have; this is his lawful demand.
His people delight to render it; and if
you do not, then you are none of his.
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