When Jesus speaks not within, our comfort is worth nothing: but if Jesus speak but one word, we feel a great consolation.
Did not Mary Magdalen arise presently from the place where she wept, when Martha said to her: The Master is here and calls for thee. John xiii.
Happy hour, when Jesus calls from tears, to joy of spirit!
How dry and hard art thou without Jesus! How foolish and vain if thou desire any thing out of Jesus! Is not this a greater damage than if thou wert to lose the whole world?
2. What can the world profit thee without Jesus?
To be without Jesus is a grievous hell, and to be with Jesus a sweet paradise.
If Jesus be with thee, no enemy can hurt thee.
Whoever finds Jesus, finds a good treasure, yea good above all goods.
And he that loseth Jesus, loseth exceeding much, and more than if he lost the whole world.