Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.