The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.

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.

Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.

A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.