Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.