Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it.