When
a widow came to the prophet Elisha begging for aid because her sons were about to be sold into bondage to pay their debts, Elisha asked her (II Kings 4:2), "What hast thou in the house?
Real
happiness is not costly, as mortals count cost, but what a price is paid for its substitute! How miserable is the mortal who has sought happiness but has, instead, found unhappiness or satiation through the exercise of the physical senses! But the depths of agony, the misery of despair, have bright sides.
The
Bible records that the disciple Peter, accompanied by John, found at one of the gates leading to the temple a man who hail been lame from birth, and he healed him.
Pilate
was voicing the desire of mortal mind to define within its own comprehension a statement of eternal fact when he asked Jesus (John 18:38), "What is truth?
