God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness, solitude?
Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Choices will continually be necessary and – let us not forget – possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.
Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It’s their business, isn’t it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.