You forget that God is overruling all.

Make no mistake—everything relating to the spirit has to be worked for, prayed for, and suffered for. But because it was wished and prayed and suffered for, God is able to pour down upon you the joy, which is of Him.

You forget that God is overruling all.

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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 28 August 1963 | Rowland Scherman | National Archives and Records Administration

God's ways are best!

God's ways are best!

A monument to Martin Luther King during the light festival Allt ljus på Uppsala, Uppsala, Schweden, November 2008 | Per Enström, a friend of User Plrk from Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Each step nearer to Christ leaves sorrow farther behind.

Each step nearer to Christ leaves sorrow farther behind and contentment takes its place; contentment in the realisation of all those countless millions who have trod the path before you, of those who are treading it with you, and an added comfort to recollect that even you—by so going forward—are making it easier for those who, as yet, are far behind.

Yes, look at the thing how you may, there is joy on every side and greater to come.

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The Wailing Wall | Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904)

Make this thought the foundation of your daily life.

Make this thought the foundation of your daily life, and when little or big things go wrong, place the source in the right direction and say at once—Yes, I know I have done wrong (or I have been foolish), but Christ is trying to comfort me all the same.

United States President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughters, Sasha and Malia, tour the Christ the Redeemer statue surrounded by mist in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on 20 March 2011 | Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Turn your gaze back to Christ.

Turn your hearts—turn your gaze back to Christ, and know that there is security, comfort, joy and protection, and in His Sheltering Arms, you are safe from all adversity forever and forever.

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Hope, II | Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) | Museum of Modern Art

In God is our trust!

We are as one, children of the Great Heart, who is seeking always and forever to bring us on, to give us those gifts of the Spirit, as soon as we can hold them, and finally to establish us in homes of our own, exceeding anything that we could conjure up. And, in that happy time, this little span of earthly experience will seem like a cloud passing over the horizon, leaving only light and sunshine all around.

This is the Great Hereafter, and such is the will of God, that something of this radiance shall be thrown across our physical lives, and we shall indeed say with all our hearts—Our trust in God has been justified up to the hilt!

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In God is our trust! | United States Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs division

Never despair if your prayers appear to remain unanswered.

Never, never, despair if your prayers appear to remain unanswered. Remember that this is only because God has chosen the best for you, and the little space—that little trying of patience, the further preparation—is making that not only possible but certain to be worked out in fact.

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Hermit | Franz Ejsmond (1859–1931) | National Museum in Warsaw

Never say again that the way is too hard.

Never say again that the way is too hard, too dark, too long. Say instead—

Though the darkness seems to surround me, yet I know I am treading ever further towards the Light—the Light of full revelation, of the realisation of God's love, the recognition of the quest of the spirit, the unfoldment of Divinity within, the recharging with the power and the love and the joy which comes from God, the sanctification and the dedication of life—physical, spiritual and eternal—to the Maker, the Creator, the Giver of all.

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Ernst Hildebrand (1833–1924) | Dorotheum

Make this little message of three words your motto.

Make this little message of three words your motto because in it everything is included. The three words are these—Trust in God! 

God did not mean that there should be so much unnecessary suffering.

Life in your world today is a very different thing from what God intended in the days of creation. God did not mean that there should be so much unnecessary suffering—unnecessary because the same progress and the same development could be brought about in a different way altogether—It could be brought about by the gentle acquiescence to the Divine Will—just that taking up of the burden and handing it over to the Saviour—when joy would be your companion instead of sorrow and all those many stages of grief, which some of my children have come to understand far too well.

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Progress and development can be brought about by the gentle acquiescence to the Divine Will.

Find within yourself the faith and confidence to demand your right.

We have yet to learn what Love is like. Only Christ can link our arms in joy and see us happy in mind and spirit. Find within yourself the faith and the confidence to ask it—to demand it—because it is your right—it is your right—and Christ is the first to recognise this with joy.

Keep your eyes on Christ.

It may seem to us sometimes that life is a very complicated thing. And so it is—so it is because we cannot work on simple, straight lines and, for the most part, we cannot keep our eyes on Christ and allow everything else to go by.

Keep your eyes on Christ.

God only waits to do that which we desire.

God only waits to do that which we desire.

Undivided by the world, we find our happiness in our Creator.

Christ, your Father and my Father, gives and gives again, and we cause Him pain when we shut ourselves off from His gifts. We cannot ask too much, and our Heavenly Father cannot bestow too much. All that is necessary is the attitude with Him, which makes a free and open channel through which His love can flow, growing in volume as we prepare ourselves to meet it. And as we grow so is it possible to increase that which is there in such abundance. Thus united, undivided by the world, we find our happiness in our Creator and He finds His happiness in us.

Water tricycle | Bain News Service | United States Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs division

Physical standards are of no use when we are thinking about God.

Physical standards are of no use when we are thinking about God.

Native Eskimo, King Island, or Ukivok | Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

He gives the gifts of the Spirit and the soul comes into its own.

Can you imagine Love weighing the scales so that they may be equal—to give us what we, out of our poor resources, can give Him? When looked at in a direct way, we can realise that things could never be equal between us and our Father, and never will be. Our Father watches over the growth of the baby-soul. He alters the nature of His vigil as the child grows up, and then when maturity is reached, He gives gifts of powers, of opportunity, and of right desire. Later, still again He alters that which He offers in so free and lavish a way—He gives the gifts of the Spirit, that inward peace, that joy beyond all expression—and then the soul comes into its own.

Nubian woman, Anglo-Egyptian SudanFrank and Frances Carpenter CollectionUnited States Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs division

God is Love.

God is Love—Thank Him, that not only has He fulfilled the promise, but has interpreted it in a way that only the Divine Mind could think of.

Kisaeng | Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

We are His, and He is ours now and always.

We are held by Christ through storm and tempest—held, protected, guarded, fought for—And in our hearts, we should acknowledge Him, not only as King of kings and Lord of lords, but Love—Love Divine, eternal, unlimited and inseparable—We are His and He is ours now and always.

Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico | Hugo Brehme | Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress

Realise that the bodyguard of love is there in an unlimited degree.

Realise that the bodyguard of love, that strong protection which Christ has provided, is there in an unlimited degree.

Mexican picnic | Hugo Brehme | Carpenter collection at the Library of Congress

Stand erect; the power is there.

Stand erect—the power is there. Continue the climb in strength and determination, certain that each step higher up is sending back to those behind the will and the wish to climb as well.

Woman and child, Nunivak, c1929 | Edward S. Curtis | United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division