“Weep not today: why should this sadness be?Learn in present fearsTo o'ermaster those tearsThat unhindered conquer thee.”

“When Death to either shall come—I pray it be first to me.”

“W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.”

“When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.”

“When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.”

“Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know.”

“God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.”