Behold me, here I am thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned to me for all that was taken from me and done against me. There is no flower in all the world more blessed or more satisfied than I, for I look up to [my Love] as a weaned child and say, 'Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none upon earth that I desire but Thee'.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

Those who love most, see most.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places. Well, he answered the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.