If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!