Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

With Christ, it is not how much we give, but what we do not give that is the real test.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.