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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.