“Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.”

“Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.”

“No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing, and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility, and hindering our communion with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, go straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do it.”

“Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.”

“He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.”

“Love is the foundation of all obedience.”

“love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will”