“Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!”

“I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!”

“Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.”

“Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!”

“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”

“But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.”

“This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.”