God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
Where reasons are given, we don’t need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don’t seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
God never denies us our heart’s desire except to give us something better.
The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. ‘Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.’ Pr 3:7,8.
If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don’t be looking constantly to the future.
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions...
If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
The Bible doesn’t explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
Most of the time we like the idea of our own freedom. There are times when we do not at all like the idea of the freedom of others. If we suffer because of their freedom, let us remember that they suffer because of ours.
Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?