Character by Firelight

The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight ...

Imitating the Real Thing

It should always be noted that the more excellent something is the more likely it will be imitated. There are many false diamonds and rubies, but who ...

You Look Perfect

One day I had a speaking engagement in Florida and I shared a table with three elegant young women. I felt fat, forty, and somewhat futile.

Suddenly and ...

Bad Influences

When I was a little girl my mother would often say to me, "Edith, I know just who you've been playing with today." She knew because I had ...

Victories Hard Won

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

The Right Mix

Afflictions are sweet preservatives to keep the saints from sin.

Making Wounds a Source of Healing

Making one's own wounds a source of healing ... does not call for a sharing of superficial personal pains but for a constant willingness to see one's ...

The Advantages of Hardship

Only one professional football team that plays its home games in a domed stadium with artificial turf has ever won the Super Bowl: The St. Louis Rams ...

The Development of Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition ...

Family Resemblance

The fruits of the Holy Spirit are, it seems to me, largely fruits of sustained interaction with God. Just as a child picks up traits more or less simply ...