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

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?

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

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.

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

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

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