If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

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

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

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