Whoever you are and wherever you find yourself as you seek your way in life, I offer you "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Wherever else you think you may be going, I ask you to "come unto Him" as the imperative first step in getting there, in finding your individual happiness and strength and success.

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

Don't delay. It's getting late.

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.