Pain Is No Evil, Unless It Conquers

It Is Only The Great Hearted Who Can Be True Friends. The Mean And Cowardly, Can Never Know What True Friendship Means.

And How High Is Christ's Cross? As High As The Highest Heaven, And The Throne Of God, And The Bosom Of The Father That Bosom Out Of Which Forever Proceed All Created Things. Ay, As High As The Highest Heaven! For If You Will Receive It When Christ Hung Upon The Cross, Heaven Came Down On Earth, And Earth Ascended Into Heaven.

We Shall Be Made Truly Wise If We Be Made Content; Content, Too, Not Only With What We Can Understand, But Content With What We Do Not Understand-the Habit Of Mind Which Theologians Call, And Rightly, Faith In God.

For To Be Discontented With The Divine Discontent, And To Be Ashamed With The Noble Shame, Is The Very Germ And First Upgrowth Of All Virtue.

Stick To The Old Truths And The Old Paths, And Learn Their Di- Vineness By Sick-beds And In Every-day Work, And Do Not Darken Your Mind With Intellectual Puzzles, Which May Breed Disbelief, But Can Never Breed Vital Religion Or Practical Usefulness.