January 10

“Our present circumstances are to be looked upon as advantages which the Great Disposer has afforded us, and not, as we are apt to think, impediments which He has thrown in our way. They are the materials with which we are to begin to build, and not a heap of rubbish that must be cleared out of the way before we lay the first stone in the edifice of our lives.”

HERRON

“Never fancy you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned to you. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God’s opportunities.”

“Despise not thou small things,
The soul that longs for wings
To soar to some great height of sacrifice too oft
Forgets the daily round,
Where little cares abound,
And shakes off little duties while she looks aloft.”