In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.