I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?