God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.
Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.
I don't eat with beautiful women alone.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.