It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along....

gulf of misery and endless wo” (Hel. 5:12).

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which...

Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of...

God’s extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the...

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder...

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits...

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting...

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part...

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the...