As colours should be as good as nothing if there were no eyes to behold them, so is beauty nothing without the eye of love behold it. You do not know, for you could never learn it from your own heart, which is all purity and rectitude, do not for a moment collapse in on yourself. You do not realize what a vibrant force you are on this Earth. You are not meant for mourning. You are meant for living and for loving. As long as you live, you are paying God tribute. There is so much infelicity in the World, that scarce any individual has leisure from one’s own distresses to estimate that comparative happiness of others. As long as you still love him, you are paying him tribute. Keep hold of that. When you believe, the surpassing greatness of God’s power is released. I believe right now the Creator of the Universe is breathing a second wind into you. Just receive it by faith. Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without certainty. Strength is coming into your body. Strength is coming into your mind. You will run and not grow weary. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Happy are they who are blessed with the power of making happy. You will walk and not faint. You will not drag through life defeated or depressed. You will soar through life on wings like eagles! God is wonderful in His design and excellent in His working. Believer, God overrules all things for your good. The needs-be for all that you have suffered has been most by your Lord. Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. Nothing will take God by surprise. There will be no novelties to Him. There will be no occurrences which He did not foresee, and for which, therefore, He has not provided. He has arranged all. And you have but to patiently wait, and you shall sing a song of deliverance. The human heart is so fond of happiness, that we give easy credit to what we wish. The more knowledge an individual has, the better one will do one’s work. It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you do not throw away the ticket and jump off the train. You sit still and trust the engineer. Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding the character of God, trusting God’s promises, and leaning on God and resting in the Lord as the Sovereign who knows what God is doing and does all things well. The individual minds are themselves not substances, but modes of mind (modi mentis) or of infinite thinking substances, which is identified with God. We are both from God and in God (ex Deo et in Deo). To the extent to which we can transcend the distortion forms of our limited understandings and see the enteral truths in ourselves as they are in the mind of God, we lose our status as limited beings and we are one with God. Virtue is not located in deed, but in a determination of the will—that is, in love of reason or, since reason as prescriptive comprises laws imposed by God, in devotion to divine law. In strong and involuntary bias, the heart is conscience. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

Virtue alone is true honor, true freedom, and solid, durable happiness. Through virtue is one and simple, there are four aspects, and these are cardinal virtues are distinguished from and contrasted with the traditional cardinal virtues, which refer to actions or accomplishments, not to the locus of morality—namely, the condition of the will. Diligence is attention to the voice of reason. Its issue is wisdom and prudence in conduct. Obedience involves compliance with the dictates of reason. Though we are free to will in conformity to divine law or not, in the end we cannot do but what God wills. By obeying his prescriptions, we attain freedom in the highest degree: we will what we can do and do not will what we cannot do, and our volitions are effective. Justice, also, is a determination of the will: to will no more and no less than reason dictates. Humility consists in knowledge, and denial, of self (contemptio sui) in the love of reason and of God. Contrasted with the virtuous man is the egoist, whose end in life is happiness. One is the slave of one’s passions and the creature of circumstance, whereas the virtuous man, not seeking happiness and resigned to what happens to one, is in a position to attain it. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Such is the power of virtue over the heart, that even  long course of vice will not render us wholly invulnerable to its divine influence. Father God, you are amazing! Thank you that you love me so much that you have not answered certain prayers. You have not allowed certain people into my life whom I really wanted, because they would have limited my growth. I know you are in complete control. There is no power greater than yours. I believe that my steps and my stops are ordered by you. I know just as you can close doors, you will open them. So, I am keeping a good attitude. I am moving forward in faith, knowing that you have my best interests at heart. I believe the reason you close certain doors is because you have something better in store. What is worship? —to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow humans what I would have my fellow humans to do to me—that is the will of God. As there are virtues that are their own reward, so there are vices which are amply their own punishment. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5