"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see." -Preface by Elizabeth Sherrill (quoting Corrie) "All through the short winter afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves as Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls--only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there." p. 29 "...the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do." p. 31 "When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need--just in time." p. 44 "Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we mak