Take heed the Lord find not many of you foolish; take heed that you are not so, that in time you grow not secure. You have the pillow of peace to lie on, and the cares of the world to make you dream away your time, and you have no pinching persecutions to awaken you; and if no wrestlings within, look for security there. Folly will be the death and bane of some; hence boast not. Security (a sleeping sickness) will be the disease of others, if the Lord prevent not.
Thomas Shepard. The Parable of the Ten Virgins.
