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

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.