Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain that we may lose the way.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people.

Here's the reality: many women are led into marriage primarily through romantic idealism, and many men are swept to the altar through sexual attraction. Before you can make a wise marital choice, you have to rid yourself of inferior motivations. The wrong why will lead you to the wrong who.