Wise Words

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
–Elizabeth Elliot

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
–Corrie ten Boom

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
–C.S. Lewis

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
–Oswald Chambers