The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.