Do you sometimes say in your heart, ‘So-and-so is very hard to put up with’?  If God puts up with us we ought also to put up with one another. 

If we seem to receive a stone when we pray today, let us rejoice, for we know the blessed secret of the rock and the flint.

Let us turn to our Father.  Then, though our questions may not be answered… we shall surely hear in the depths of our hearts good and comfortable words.

We don’t go out alone into any endeavour. 

The way of obedience is the way of joy.  

 If one lover of the Lord goes to a meeting unready, conscious perhaps of some shadow of self in the centre, some out-of-tuneness, there will be loss to everyone.

Above all, thank God for His Book of books.  Is there a need it cannot meet?  Is there a dryness it cannot refresh?  Not one.

There is a sense in which every soul that follows hard after its God must find itself alone.  ‘He who follows Him the nearest needs must walk alone.’  It is part of the discipline of life.