“[I]t's impossible to please God in any other way that wholehearted surrender...”
“The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.”
“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”
“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”
“...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.”Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.”
“[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.”