Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
He is not all we would ask for (if we were honest), but it is precisely when we do not have what we would ask for, and only then, that we can clearly perceive His all-sufficiency.
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...
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.
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...
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...
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas...
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.
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...
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.
A few clear pronouncements on one side and a few honest questions on the other had, in a matter of minutes, shown me that life was not going to be as simple, ever again, as I had thought.
We are always held in the love of God. We are never wholly at the mercy of other people - they are only second causes, and no matter how many second or third or fiftieth causes seem to be in control o...
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...
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...
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. He will not necessarily protect us - not from...