Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.