What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.