A young bride to be was very nervous on the day before her wedding, so she went to speak with her minister. "I'm afraid I might not make it through the ceremony properly," she confessed.

The minister assured her that everything would be fine: "When you enter the church tomorrow and the processional begins, you will be walking down the same aisle you've walked many times before. Concentrate on that ...

When I was a kid, my dad told me two stories all the time. In the first one, a couple goes to Harvard University and asks to see the president, because they want to give a donation to the university. The president agrees to see them, but he doesn't know them, and because they're from somewhere way out west, he treats them curtly. After a few moments, the woman finally turns to her husband and says, ...

In the Christian life, nothing, nothing at all, can be purchased at the do-it-yourself shop.

—Author Harry Blamires

Two commands direct us from the small-minded world of self-help to the large world of God's help. First, "Come, behold the works of the Lord." Take a long, scrutinizing look at what God is doing. This requires patient attentiveness and energetic concentration. Everybody else is noisier than God. The headlines and neon lights and amplifying systems of the world announce human works. But what of God's ...

Nacho Libre is the story of a young priest, Ignacio, who must reconcile his love for wrestling with his duty to God and the orphanage in which he works. In this scene, Ignacio struggles with his desire to wrestle after watching a live lucha libre match (lucha libre is the Mexican professional wrestling circuit).

Ignacio (Jack Black) enters the kitchen where Sister Encarnacion is making breakfast.

"Ignacio," ...

Ralph and Janice were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, and Pastor Jones decided to take advantage of their longevity by using their story as a sermon illustration. He asked Ralph to come on stage and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all those years.

Ralph turned to the congregation and said, "Well, I treated her with respect and spent money on her—but ...

In his book Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas writes:

If we are serious about pursuing spiritual growth through marriage, we must convince ourselves to refrain from asking the spiritually dangerous question: "Did I marry the right person?"

A far better alternative to questioning one's choice is to learn how to live with one's choice. A character in the Anne Tyler novel A Patchwork Planet comes to realize ...

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In this scene, RJ attempts to persuade his new acquaintances that suburb-dwelling humans are the key to gathering all the food they could ever need. After passing through a hedge separating the forest from suburbia, Verne the turtle says: "Could we just get the food and go? Really, do they have it or not?"

RJ answers: "They've always got food with them. We eat to live; these guys live to eat. Let ...

A study released in May of 2006 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contained some surprising insights into how men view marriage relationships. For example, 66 percent of men agreed with the statement, "It is better to get married than go through life single," compared with only 51 percent of women.

In addition, 76 percent of men and 72 percent of women agreed that "it is more important ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a space comedy about a human and an alien who hitch a ride with a spacecraft just before the Earth is destroyed. Along with other characters, they go on a quest to find answers to the mystery of life.

The clip begins with the spaceship's crew viewing an alien video. The narrator of the clip says, "Many millions of years ago, a race of hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional ...