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 and awe, rath...
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...
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 sp...
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986
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 St. Stephen, and kept th...
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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 reaso...
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
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
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 dawn. We can do...
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. He has things for you to do...