MARCH 28
Meantime, bear your cross, and it will bear you. Seek an inward, not an outward change.
Letter, 26th January, 1774
As long as we dwell in a house of clay it is liable to affect the mind; sometimes by dulling or darkening the understanding, and sometimes more directly by damping and depressing the soul and sinking it into distress and heaviness. In this state doubt or fear of one kind or another will naturally arise. And the prince of this world, who well knows whereof we are made, will not fail to improve the occasion, in order to disturb, though he cannot pollute, the heart which God hath cleansed from all unrighteousness.
to Miss March, 1771
