The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

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.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.