JANUARY 10
The passions have a greater influence upon health than most people are aware of. All violent and sudden passions dispose to or actually throw people into acute diseases. Till the passion which caused the disease is calmed, medicine is applied in vain.
The love of God, as it is the sovereign remedy of all miseries, so in particular it effectually prevents all the bodily disorders the passions introduce, by keeping the passions themselves within due bounds; and by the unspeakable calm serenity and tranquility it gives the mind, it becomes the most powerful of all the means of health and long life.
Primitive Physic
You are in God’s school, and He will teach you one lesson after another till you have learned all His holy and acceptable will.
Letter, 1st April, 1784
