…..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.’

There is no race of man which does not believe in a spiritual world, and which does not, in moments of anguish, lift up beseeching hands and imploring eyes to a being.

With faith that comes of self-control
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved 
And all we flow from, soul in soul.

My father, who was a Hebrew scholar, told me that the word in the original is to be ‘silent unto,’ or before the Lord. – ‘They that are silent unto the Lord shall renew their strength.’