We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink