Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.

Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

God raises the level of the impossible.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.