“Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”

“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions...”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”