You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.

The word suffering is much too grand to apply to most of our troubles, but if we don't learn to refer the little things to God how shall we learn to refer the big ones? A definition which covers all sorts of trouble, great or small, is this: having what you don't want, or wanting what you don't have. The vicissitudes of travel furnish plenty of what Janet Erskine Stuart calls "blessed inconveniences," occasions which fit both categories in our definition.

When you and I offer our fears, worries, and anxieties to God, we give Him the opportunity to demonstrate how marvelously caring His heart really is, and we allow God to show us how deeply He cares for us.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

so many ways, loss shows us what is precious, while love teaches us who

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

Because God knows everything about us, cares about us, helps us, and listens to us whenever we turn to Him, we are not carrying our burdens alone. We therefore have no reason to be bitter.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.

We cannot see beyond the door, we know not what he hath in store, we can but bow our hearts and pray, for strength to serve Him day by day.