I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

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.