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I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven-what it is and what it holds for us. I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think. I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here-and be ourselves just the same-only it will be easier to be good and to-follow the highest. All the hindrances and perplexites will be taken away, and we shall see clearly.

"See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that unless everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?"

"One would be quite ready to lay down one's life for the person one loved. It seems even a little thing, doesn't it?"

The first day of sun that peeps over the hills of morning shall fall through it's windows across your bed, and you shall work only as you please, after you've had months of play and rest; it's coming true the instant you can leave here. Dream of it, make up your mind to it, because it's coming. I have a streak of second sight, so I see it on the way.

"If she could see and hear this, she would come," he said softly. "She would come and she would love it as I do. Any one who understands, and knows how to translate, cares for this above all else earth has to offer. They who do not, fail to read as they run!"

God never gives us hindrances. On the contrary, He means, in making us wives and mothers, to put us into the very condition of holy living. But if we abuse His gifts by letting them take His place in our hearts, it is an act of love on His part to take them away, or to destroy our pleasure in them.

Never to fold the robe o'er secret pain,
Never, weighed down by memory's clouds again,
To bow thy head! Thou art gone home!

"There are briars besetting every path,
Which call for patient care;
There is a cross in every lot,
And an earnest need for prayer."

“Learn to win a lady’s faith
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely, as for life and death—
With a loyal gravity.

Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship’s flatteries.”

"It is not faith in my prayers, but faith in Him who dictates them..."

It is not necessary to make great efforts nor acts of great reflection, in order to offer what are called indifferent actions. It is enough to lift the soul one instant to God, to make a simple offering of it. Everything which God wishes us to do, and which enters into the course of occupation suitable to our position, can and ought to be offered to God; nothing is unworthy of Him but sin.

...What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.

He was a person of great power in my eyes; that was, of course, the reason of my mind running on him. No veiled future dimly glanced up on him in the moonbeams. There was no shadowy picture of his footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night.