New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.