"But even did we know him to be prowling round outside, we might rest and sleep in peace and security, assured that nothing can harm us without the will of our heavenly Father who loves us more than any earthly parent loves his child." He drew her very close to his heart and imprinted a tender kiss upon her lips as he spoke.
"Yes, papa, it makes me feel very safe to remember that, thinking how dearly you love me; so that I know you would never let anything harm me if you could help it," she returned, putting an arm round his neck and hugging him tight.

"Oh I am so glad that the Bible tells us that about God's love to us!" "So am I; and that my children have early learned to love and trust in him.
"'Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' That is not a promise that God's faithful followers shall be rich in this world's goods, but faith in God's loving care makes life happy even in the midst of poverty and pain.

Riches have not the power to make us happy, but the love of God has.
"And those who begin to serve God in the morning of life and press onward and upward all their days, keeping near to Jesus and growing more and more like him, will be happier in heaven--because of their greater capacity for the enjoyment of God and holiness--than the saved ones who sought him late in life, or were less earnest in their endeavors to live in constant communion with him, and to bear more and more resemblance to him.
"The Bible speaks of some who are 'scarcely saved,' and of others to whom 'an entrance shall be ministered abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.'" "Papa," said Lulu earnestly, "I want to be one of those; I want to live near to Jesus and grow every day more like him.

(Oh I am so little like him now; sometimes I fear not at all).

Won't you help me all you can ?" "I will, my darling," he replied, speaking with emotion.