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.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.