All changes, successes, disappointments–all that is memorable in the annals of history, all the risings and falls of empires, all the turns in human life–take place according to God’s plan. In vain men contrive and combine to accomplish their own counsels. Unless they are parts of His...
Time will convince even the blindest and most frivolous of us that happiness is no more to be found in the places we usually look than it is to be dug out of the earth. But the man who knows the secret of prayer lives at the top of human happiness. –William Law