The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter h...
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross. There i...
But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.
Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them...
She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.
Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: 'Wherever you are, be all here. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
And so it often is. Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements. We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world’s woes. What we are offered has to do with another world alt...
Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls...
There is a popular notion about prayer that assumes that the thing asked for ought to be the object of faith—Lord, give me this or that, wherefore this and that become the realities. No. The Bible sta...
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the real living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God...
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
Steadfastness, that is holding on;Patience, that is holding back;Expectancy, that is holding the face up;Obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do;Listening, that is holding quiet...
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
And I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in cha...
A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks.