If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'

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

She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.