The question is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?