Can you make any sense of this?

This is our practical religion; it is our duty to stop and begin to look at ourselves. We may have trials to p through, and when people come to me, and tell me that they are wonderfully tried and have a great many difficulties to encounter - have their troubles on the right and on the left, and what to do they are at a loss to know, I say, "I am glad of it." I rejoice to think that they must have trials as well as other people. And when they say, "It seems as though the devil would overcome me," it is a pretty good evidence that an individual is watching himself.