It is a fine thing to ripen without shrivelling, to reach the calmness of age, yet keep the warm heart and ready sympathy of youth,

God’s conception of human victory is so much greater than ours that it cannot always adapt itself to our small triumphal processions.  

There is no finer chemistry than that by which the element of suffering is so compounded with spiritual forces that it issues to the world as gentleness and strength.

 ‘I hardly know what to do for the pain’ and yet, when it passes away, we are sensitive to a host of impressions that we before ignored. 

…..Do not pick and choose among events, try and interpret each as it comes.

How often we speak of things as though they were God’s will which are simply brought about by our own foolishness or sin. 

…the real secret of getting what you want in heaven as on earth lies in the fact that you give your whole heart to it, or you cannot adequately value it when you get it.

Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.

Pray without ceasing, God may make thee wait 
And keep thee at His door on bended knee.
But fear not He will leave thee desolate, 
He may bless others first, but will bless thee.

‘O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come.’