Joy In One's Work Is The Consummate

It Never Frightened A Puritan When You Bade Him Stand Still And Listen To The Speech Of God. His Closet And His Church Were Full Of The Reverberations Of The Awful, Gracious, Beautiful Voice For Which He Listened.

We Are Haunted By An Ideal Life, And It Is Because We Have Within Us The Beginning And The Possibility Of It.

Character - Some Day, You Will Be Wrestling With The Great Temptation, Or Trembling Under The Great Sorrow Of Your Life. But The Real Struggle Is Here, Now, In These Quiet Weeks. Now It Is Being Decided Whether, In The Day Of Your Supreme Sorrow Or Temptation, You Shall Miserably Fail Or Gloriously Conquer. Character Cannot Be Made Except By A Steady, Long-continued Process.

Pray For And Work For Fullness Of Life Above Every Thing; Full Red Blood In The Body; Full Honesty And Truth In The Mind; And The Fullness Of A Grateful Love For The Saviour In Your Heart.

The True Way To Be Humble Is Not To Stoop Until You Are Smaller Than Yourself, But To Stand At Your Real Height Against Some Higher Nature That Will Show You What The Real Smallness Of Your Greatness Is.