Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

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

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.