The very exercise of communion with Him brings peace and rest, inasmuch
as all things are then possessed which we can desire. There is a still
fruition which nothing can equal and nothing destroy.
Trust in God brings rest from our own evil consciences.
It brings rest from our own plans and purposes.
Trust gives insight into the meaning of all this else unintelligible
world.
It brings the calming and subduing of desires, which in their eagerness
torture, in their fruition trouble, and in their disappointment madden.
It brings the gathering in of ourselves from all the disturbing
diffusion of ourselves through earthly trifles.