I like direct, practical preaching, which helps me to live as a pilgrim on a journey. Now, some preach as if they were telling how to make shoes, instead of making them; as if they were describing the process of shoe-making to those who want to be shod. They would have their hearers all taught to be capital shoe-makers, while you want to be a shoe-wearer. They tell you all about the leather, and the rosin, and the awl; while it is a rough road for bare feet, and cold, that you must traverse constantly.
Faith opens up a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it.—Augustine.