The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.