Occupation: Author Birth: December 21, 1926 Death: June 15, 2015
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..
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but merci….
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary..
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture..
The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next ….
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life..
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us..
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in pra….
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now..
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You ….
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us i….
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires..
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances..
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience..
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him..
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them..
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus..
The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all s….
Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith ….
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say t….
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore….