God is nearer to us than our own spirit

The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.