Philip Yancey learned a high appreciation for pain's warning function while collaborating on three books with Dr. Paul Brand. Brand was the missionary surgeon who discovered that ...

God is often (in some sense) nearer to us, and more effectually present with us, in sickness than in health. ... He often sends diseases of the body to cure those of the soul. Comfort ...

Browsing in a London bookstore last summer, I ran across a little volume by Mrs. Leslie Stevens, called Notes from Sickrooms. It was a volume of instructions for domestic nurses. My ...