It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

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.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

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.

This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.