A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I came to explore the wreck.

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.