When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

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

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.