The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.