She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought – that is, with discipline.
Loneliness is a required course for leadership.
True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ’he will find his true self.
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
He is always doing something – the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God.
The question is simply,’Who is your master?’Once that’s settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.