My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

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.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

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

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.