Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!