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^But in the meantime, the world must be shown. There has to be living proof that some men and some women today actually love God and will do exactly what He says.^

^Mystery is something we must all come to terms with. "If God were small enough to be understood He would not be big enough to worshipped." (Evelyn Underhill).

^C.S. Lewis said that God whispers to us in our joys, speaks to us in our conscience, and shouts to us in our pain.^

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And it’s amazing what rest comes from the gentle fitting of self to its sphere.^

^John S. Dwight (1813-93) said, “Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.” If in my “sphere” I find things out of place through someone else’s fault this is my opportunity to fit myself, to give a little, to do the small thing that should have been done by the other. Love is very patient, very kind, never rude, never selfish.

^We learn to love Him as we learn to “frame our heart to the burden,” as Samuel Rutherford said.^

^As I reminded my daughter Valerie’s (in the book I wrote as a wedding present to her, Let Me Be A Woman), you marry a sinner. There simply isn’t anything else to marry. So the husband sins against the wife and—let us wives not forget—he, too married a sinner.^

^But having been at this a good number of years, I am more and more aware of the difficulty of helping people to turn their eyes to Jesus. The world is, as Wordsworth put it, too much with us.^

Wordsworth again! I’m seeing it in so many different books!

^John Henry Newman (1801-1890) wrote, “To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.”^

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Do not crave so much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life be formed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances. Do not take overmuch thought for tomorrow. God, who has led you safely on so far, will lead you on to the end. Be altogether at rest in the loving holy confidence which you ought to have in His heavenly Providence.” (St. Francis de Sales)^