To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

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.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.