What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.