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

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.