A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

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.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.