But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.