Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.