This is the age of pacifism, but it is not the age of peace.
–G.K. Chesterton


When we in darkness walk, Nor feel the heavenly flame, Then is the time to trust our God, And rest upon His name.
Max Lucado Max Lucado is pastor of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. He is also a speaker, and best-selling author. He shares a message for “the hurting, the guilty, the lonely, and the discouraged: God loves you; let him.”
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for…
This quote reminded me of the day a teacher took a paper heart and violently crumpled into a tight wad in front of her class. Then she opened it back up and tried to smooth it out, but of course the wrinkles were still in the paper. She said, “You can never take back the…
Though waves and storms go o’er my head, Though strength and health and friends be gone, Though joys be withered all, and dead, Though every comfort be withdrawn, On this my steadfast soul relies,— Father! Thy mercy never dies. JOHANN A. ROTHE