For my part, I don't feel that strife of any sort is necessary to make me enjoy life; of all things it is what makes me miserable.

I grant you that effort and struggle add immeasurably to the enjoyment of life, but those I look upon as labor, not strife.

There may be whole worlds for us to help bring into order and obedience.

And I suspect there must be no end of work in which is strife enough--and that of a kind hard to bear.

There must be millions of spirits in prison that want preaching to; and whoever goes among them will have that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ to fill up.