If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

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.

A thoughtform is rather like electricity … it must first be created and then discharged in order to exist.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.