Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart,” he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.”Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of...

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

I can’t say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church...

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Maybe it’s because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

I’d like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

Merry Christmas!’ someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. ‘Merry Christmas!”Merry Christmas!”C-cookies for ever’body!’ Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth,...

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After ‘Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn’t help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across...

Well, I’m going to church. But i’ve got to tell you that it’s full of hypocrites.My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope...

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.