But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He...

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This...

Up, up, my soul, the long-spent time redeeming;Sow thou the seeds of better deeds and thought;Light other lamps while yet thy lamp is beaming—The time is short.Think of the good thou might’st have done when...

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him–this is all!

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read–that God’s ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much...

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it;...

People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am...