Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.