It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.

Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.

Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.

But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.

this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world.

Every mistake is a new learning adventure.

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England