The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.