If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.

The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?