Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

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.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

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

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard