Your only hell – Thomas Brooks

All your crosses and losses shall be so tempered by a hand of heaven, as that they shall become wholesome medicines. They shall be steps to your future glory. All your present trials are your only hell; your heaven is to come. And therefore be contented in the midst of all your sorrows and sufferings.

Remember that many times those who have most of the world in their hands, have least of God, of Christ, of the Spirit, of grace, of heaven in their hearts. It is only an infinite good and infinite God, which can fill and satisfy the soul of man.

Remember, that a man were better to have much of God with a little of the world; than to have much of the world with a little of God. God alone is a thousand thousand felicities, and a world of happiness, the only life and light.