[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
Time-out,” I said. He twisted his hand around and wound his fingers into mine. “You‘re putting me in time-out?” “Yes,” I said as a shaky sigh slid through my lips. “If I don‘t go, do I get a spanking?
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.