Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

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