When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a "reproductive health procedure, . . ." "Illegitimacy" gives way to the wholly sanitized words "non-marital birth" or "alternative parenting."

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.