Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

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

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

In order to learn what it means to be a woman we must start with the One who made her.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.