He Who Has "Garra" Will Be Saved

The Brazilians describe a person who sticks with something with the word "garra." If you look up "garra" in a Portuguese dictionary, ...

Persevering to the Finish Line

Runner's World (8/91) told the story of Beth Anne DeCiantis's attempt to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Trials marathon. A female runner must complete ...

Good Soldier

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish and prefer that which is truly ...

The Curse of Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

The Lord Is My Strength

Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life," can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?"

The Secret of Tenacity

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur discoverer of the principles of vaccination, ...

A Flag of Rags

In the final years of our imprisonment, the North Vietnamese moved us from small cells with one or two prisoners to large rooms with as many as 30-40 ...

Developing Christian Maturity

A big part of Christian maturity is learning to let God keep you steady and to be ruled less and less by your emotions and circumstances.

Making Justice Weak

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical. ... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. ...

Healing in Weakness

We live in a world full of people struggling to be, or at least to appear, strong in order not to be weak; and we follow a gospel which says that when ...