““Surely his love proves he is the person to comfort you. Therefore, let him into your heart, Christian, so he may comfort you in your distress. He is a faithful Comforter. Shakespeare tells us (in King Lear) that a thankless child is “sharper than a serpent’s tooth” and so is an unfaithful friend. To have a friend turn away from me in my distress is more bitter that “the gall of bitterness.” Oh, misery of miseries, to have someone who loves me in my prosperity forsake me in the dark day of my trouble! That is very sad, but God’s Spirit is not like that. He always loves and loves even to the end. He is a faithful Comforter.””
