God's will, God's glory, and, inseparably bound up therewith, my own salvation, this is the one thing necessary. "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?" (Matthew 16:16). Everything, therefore, which does not bear on this is but vanity and affliction of spirit; to glorify God by saving my soul is my one great duty -- the one end of my creation.
-- Barraud, Meditations
With Grateful Acknowledgement for the Intercession of . . .
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