Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.

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.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.