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Could you hold your heart in a glass you would see that for every virtue and grace which it makes manifest, Faith has roots in the waters. If no leaves and flowers are put forth, be assured there are no roots beneath. If there are no visible graces, there is no living faith. If the heart does not open and expand with virtue, godliness and charity, it is not rooted in Christ, it does not drink in the spirit of Christ. It is nothing but a close, hard, thick mass of dry dead scales and leaves, without form or comeliness, without life or root.

Joseph P. Thompson — Joseph P. Thompson, Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, The Christian Graces. A Series of Lectures on 2 Peter i. 5–12 (New York: Sheldon & Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1859), Lecture VIII, "The Choir of Graces," p. 240

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Joseph P. Thompson, Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, The Christian Graces. A Series of Lectures on 2 Peter i. 5–12 (New York: Sheldon & Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1859), Lecture VIII, "The Choir of Graces," p. 240

Joseph P. Thompson, Joseph P. Thompson, Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, The Christian Graces. A Series of Lectures on 2 Peter i. 5–12 (New York: Sheldon & Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1859), Lecture VIII, "The Choir of Graces," p. 240 (archive.org) - Joseph P. Thompson, Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, The Christian Graces. A Series of Lectures on 2 Peter i. 5–12 (New York: Sheldon & Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1859), Lecture VIII, "The Choir of Graces," p. 240

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