The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

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

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.