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

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

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.

. . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

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

When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.