If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.

When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.