Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.