Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.

I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.