“Intimacy is the posture of one heart toward another. Intimacy chooses the path of self-disclosure above self-protection, vulnerability above guardedness, unhindered and expressed emotion rather than silenced feeling.” (source)
“we do not learn to exert our faith until there is opposition that demands it.” (source)
“Sometimes our cries for God to release us from challenges that face us are actually cries for Him to rescue us from tests of His design. See every challenge today as an opportunity to learn obedience, to reveal your hidden faith.” (source)
“Train me in the second-nature acts of prayer and thanksgiving, and help me cease my first-nature propensity to simply worry. I need Your help in this and believe You will give it.” (source)
“His ways are higher. They are different than ours, and they are often understood to be masterful only in retrospect” (source)