Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.

It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.