Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
The heart set to do the Father’s will, needs never fear defeat.
Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.
Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
Money holds terrible power when it is loved.
The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.
All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.
In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
Are you afraid? Remember the “fear nots” of the Bible.
Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living.
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.