No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. read more

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8].

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are read more

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove read more

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. read more

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7].