God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

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'.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.