We may claim God’s good will in our hearts as ours, if we will lay aside the doing of our own wrong will.

…one of the best ways to look at God is to look at Him through man, and the work He does among the children of men, for there we see Him most variously and most infinitely.

My child, go, forward, abiding in faith, hope, and love, for lo, I am with you alway.

So, Lord, who erst didst stir with quickening power 

My answering soul, achieve what Thou hast aimed;

Draw, for Thou hast drawn;  hold, what Thou hast claimed;

Aye, better to climb and fall, 

Or sow though the yield be small;

Than to throw away day after day, 

And never strive at all.

The Past cannot be changed. The Future is yet in our power.

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.   The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

IT IS a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success;  they much oftener succeed through failure. 

Nor deem the irrevocable Past 

As wholly wasted, wholly vain, 

If, rising on its wrecks, at last 

To something nobler we attain.