God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.