“Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.”
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“Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.”
― Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
― Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
― Passion and Purity
― Passion and Purity
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”
― Discipline: The Glad Surrender
― Discipline: The Glad Surrender
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