and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.