The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.