Awelessness that leads me to question God's power and character will cause me to take my life into my own hands, and because I have taken my life into my own hands, I will rebel against what God calls me to

We can experience peace in the face of the unknown. We can feel an inner well-being while living in the middle of mystery. Why? Because our peace of heart does not rest on how much we know, how much we have figured out, or how accurately we have been able to predict the future. No, our rest is in the person who holds our individual futures in his wise and gracious hands. We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

if you're God's child, your life is never, ever out of control.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows.

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

Now, you and I need to understand two things in these words that answer our question. What is God doing? First, he's reigning! No, your world is not out of control. No, the bad guys are not going to win. No, sin will not have the final victory. Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows. He loves you and rules what you don't understand with your good in mind.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.