Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.