God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.