The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.