To know what men have already done is a light matter compared with knowing what men will yet do.

To be prepared to die is to be prepared to live. To be ready for eternity is in the best sense to be ready for time. Who is so fit to live on earth as the man …

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

There is something for us to do in the wilderness, and so we are kept out of the heavenly garden for now.