Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.