You can't get to second base keeping one foot on first.
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.