"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."