Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.