For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

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

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men, and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave.

Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

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