"Keep Your Heart With All Diligence."

Untrained, unlopped, unpruned, uncultured!

(John MacDuff, "Ripples in the Twilight" 1885)

"Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it spring the issues of life!"
Proverbs 4:23

Leave the heart to itself--

untrained, unlopped, 

unpruned, uncultured--

and you will soon have 

a wild wilderness--

an aggregate of distorted ugliness--

the home and haunt of all 

venomous things! 

We must lay the axe to 

the root of every evil habit 

and debasing passion!

"Put to death, therefore, whatever 
belongs to your earthly nature: 
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, 
evil desires and greed, which 
is idolatry!" Colossians 3:5 

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GraceGems has published R.W. Dale's helpful helpful article,
"AMUSEMENTS".