When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
Muddled thinking inevitably results in muddled living
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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.