Occupation: Author Birth: September 27, 1914 Death: March 18, 1983
The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'..
God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim..
So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life….
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be ….
Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed..
in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism..
I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers ….
No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away..
If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take he….
When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of ….
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another..
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His..
Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go..
Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty ….
I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did no….
Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains..
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope..
Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wond….
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His..
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments an….
The search for God begins at the point of need..