To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.