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

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

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.

In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.

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

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!