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“This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when…

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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth…

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“Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.”

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We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our…

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No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this…

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Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The…

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“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”

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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and…

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“I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him--but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I…

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“People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents!" What then will be the future of…

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