We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

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.

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.

And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.