Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, str….

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now..

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them..

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace..

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!.

Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I….

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus..

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the in….

Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the ….

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee..

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the rea….

Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to….

I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signif….

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our so….

To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving, when I am happy and busy, an….

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diam….

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss..

O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee..

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true..

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls..