Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

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.

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.

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.

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