The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

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

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.

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.

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.