Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

I've read your summary.""And?""It's not incompetent."Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.