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

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

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

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.