Then I find that all the comfort you propose is by leading me off from myself; but I will rather enter deep into my own condition, bad as it is: Perhaps I shall be nearer to God, the Eternal Truth, in feeling sorrows and miseries that are personal and real, than in feeling comforts that are not so. I begin already to find that all my grievances centre in one point: There is always at the bottom one great loss or defect, which is not the want of friends or gold, of health or philosophy.
Inatokea mara kwa mara katika maisha yetu kuna mambo ambayo Bwana anayafanya katika maisha yetu binafsi ambayo ni ya kimsingi kwetu kuyatambua na kuyajua, na sio tu mwingine fulani. Mungu hamwambii mtu mwingine yoyote yule. Anakutegemea wewe mwenyewe kujua na kutembea katika utii wa imani. Hii ni sehemu ya ukuaji ki Roho katika Bwana!