Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

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

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.