Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

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.

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

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

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?