None of us is fit to do anything. It's only with the Lord's help we get by.

Nothing could define her unless she let it. She had God in her life to heal those broken places, but she hadn't let him do it.

If only my heart were stone.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...

The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

Wherever she was, at work, in the food line, in the dormitory, Betsie spoke to those around her about His nearness and His yearning to come into their lives. As her body grew weaker, her faith seemed to grow bolder. And sick call was "such and important place, Corrie! Some of these people are at the threshold of heaven!