“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.”

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

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.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

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.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

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 still owns tomorrow.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Nothing can stand against our God. No sickness is too great, no addiction too strong, no enemy too powerful.

When you’re in difficult times, don’t just say what you feel, what you think, what you want. Say what God says about your situation.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

When it’s the right time, when it all comes together, it’s going to work for your good. You’re going to see the hand of God.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.