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

No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

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

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."