Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.