Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.

Faith is like a radar that sees through the fog.

There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Three times, he said, he had begged God to take away his weakness, whatever it was. And each time God had said, Rely on Me.

Conditions are always changing; therefore, I must not be dependent upon conditions. What matters supremely is my soul and my relationship to God.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety...

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, God can give us the perfect way.

Does one approach the Scriptures (or any other influential document or collection of documents in the history of world civilization) with a hermeneutics of consent or a hermeneutics of suspicion? Christians have not done well in trying to read literature from other religions empathetically, and atheists and adherents of other world religions today increasingly approach the Bible with preexisting hostility.

Who do we believe in more? Ourselves or God? Our actions and decisions will reflect that.

Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.