You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

Virginity is something that can be offered to God.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.