There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

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.

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

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

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

Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.

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