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.
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...
What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of the Lord.
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...
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He g...
A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.
A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high pri...
The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of...
The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.
Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk...
Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave—that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked,...
If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
So the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts...
When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present to the Lord.Nate
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclu...