We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.