Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.