Have there been times in your life when a glowing feeling crept into
your heart and you beheld a vision of ideal perfection? Oh, be "obedient
to the heavenly vision," remembering this, that the secret of approach
to your ideal is love and humility. Humility will keep you in the right
path as love hurries you on after your ideal. Neither the rocks, the
thorns, the waves, nor the furnace flames, retard the lover in his race
for a perfect life when the vision is kept clear before his soul. Have
you made failures? So have I--greater failures, perhaps, than any you
have made or ever will make; but the God who transforms the caterpillar
into the butterfly will transform you into his perfect image if you only
love him intently and be submissive to all his will.