The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden peace, which the world sees not … What he is when left to himself and to his God, that is his true life. He can bear himself; he can (as it were) joy in himself, for it is the grace of God within him, it is the presence of the Eternal Comforter in which he joys. He can bear, he finds it pleasant, to be with himself at all times – “never less alone than when alone”. He can lay his head on his pillow at night, and own in God’s sight, with overflowing heart, that he wants nothing … that God has been all things to him, and that nothing is not his which God could give him. More thankfulness, more holiness, more of heaven he needs indeed, but the thought that he can have more is not a thought of trouble, but of joy.B