It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

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.

We can never control change

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.