...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.