The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.