and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

I came alive when I started loving you.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.