If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

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

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.