Only the Strong Forgive

What is true of individuals is true of nations. One cannot forgive too much. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ...

Forgiveness Not for the Weak

When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, he instinctively threw up his hand in the Hindu gesture of forgiveness. Gandhi understood what Jesus was about, ...

Basic Needs

People are blind to what they really need. They need family, and they need religion. Period. There is such an incredible strength in family, and religion ...

Ooh's and Aah's

My three-year-old brother, Mark, put his arm on the table and said to his father, "Daddy, feel my muscle."

Dad squeezed his arm and murmured, "Oooooooh!"

God Brings Out Our Best

We are all asked to do more than we can do. Every hero and heroine of the Bible does more than he would have thought it possible to do, from Gideon to ...

We Can Do All Things

Guideposts published the story of Jim Stovall, who became totally blind at age 29. While he still had partial vision, he volunteered at a school for the ...

Seeing What We Really Are

It is very easy talking what we can bear, and what we can do, but let God lay his hand on us, and we shall see what we are.

The Weak Man Behind "A Mighty Fortress"

The "Weak" Man behind "A Mighty Fortress"

In intense turmoil, Luther wrote his greatest hymn.

It was the worst of times--1527--one of ...

Conditioning for Danger

Lord Joseph Duveen, American head of the art firm that bore his name, planned in 1915 to send one of his experts to England to examine some ancient pottery. ...

Life's Real Miracles

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing ...