There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven.
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.