Most of the trouble in life is borrowed trouble, which never actually comes.
"As all healthy action, physical, intellectual and moral, depends primarily on cheerfulness," says E.P.Whipple, "and as every duty, whether it be to follow a plow or to die at the stake, should be done in a cheerful spirit, the exploration of the sources and conditions of this most vigorous, exhilarating and creative of the virtues may be as useful as the exposition of any topic of science or system of prudential art." Christ, the great teacher, did not shut Himself up with monks, away from temptation of the great world outside.

He taught no long-faced, gloomy theology.

He taught the gospel of gladness and good cheer.

His doctrines are touched with the sunlight, and flavored with the flowers of the fields.

The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and happy, romping children are in them.