He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

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

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

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

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?