Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.