We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.