Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.

The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

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

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.