“We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.”

“It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.”

“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”

“How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?”

“The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best? The same is true with the second coming and with all those matters wherein our faith needs to include faith in the Lord’s timing for us personally, not just in His overall plans and purposes.”

“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”

“When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed”