The word surrender has some shadowy connotations. We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do. It means to give our will over to another . . . and when that other is Christ, we are surrendering our pri...
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we li...
A large body of psychological research tells us something that many of us already know: girls and women place a lot of importance on their closest relationships. Our parents, relatives, romantic partners and spouses, children, and friends are central...
Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Do...
And we neglect the glorious gospel when we fail to recognize his preeminence. How frequently we forget that everything is for him and about him. We forget that he is to be first, in our honor and in our worship. Whenever the gospel slips from our con...
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as...
The thing is, someday the sun is going to die and everything on Earth will freeze. This will happen. Even if we end global warming and clean up our radiation. The complete works of William Shakespeare, Monet’s lilies, all of Hemingway, all of Milto...
There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story. People, who influence, who possess the drift, the force whose implication leads us forward in our course of life...
God's Grace is greater than all our sins. Repentance is one of the Christian's highest privileges. A repentant Christian focuses on God's mercy and God's grace. Any moment in our lives when we bask in God's mercy and grace is our highest moment. High...
There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.
There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.
Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.
What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.
Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
