Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.