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.

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

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

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

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.