By Mary Wilder Tileston

      There was no room for them in the inn.
      LUKE 2:7

      GOD often would enrich, but finds not where to place His treasurer,--nor in hand nor heart a vacant space.

      RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

      THE soul, in its highest sense, is a vast capacity for God. It is like a curious chamber added on to being, and somehow involving being, a chamber with elastic and contractile walls, which can be expanded, with God as its guest, illimitably, but which without God shrinks and shrivels until every vestige of the Divine is gone.

      HENRY DRUMMOND

      All that God desires is to give you His great love, so that it may dwell in you, and be the principle of your life and service; and all that withstands God's desire and His gift is the want of room for it, and for its free movement, when that room is taken up with yourselves and your little personal interests.

      WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE

      By rooting out our selfish desires, even when they appear to touch no one but ourselves, we are preparing a chamber of the soul where the Divine Presence may dwell.

      ELLEN WATSON