Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.