What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.