Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.