Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

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

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.

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