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?

Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage

Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to the fact that we still have something to learn at every step of the way. Learning is not automatic. It comes with seeking and searching, with reading and watching, with thinking, praying, and listening.

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

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

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

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