Grace Livingston Hill

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.

And you think the Lord gives attention to such little details as how long a potato should cook?” asked Ruth earnestly. “Why yes, dear,” answered the mother, “if you put a matter, even a little matter, into the Lord’s hands to guide you, and trust that He will, of course He will.

There is no life apart from Christ. Perhaps the reason you are dissatisfied with life is because you’ve been seeking it apart from Him and all you have been getting is an imitation.