Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

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

God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.