When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

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

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.