God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?