The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.
When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
If you disaggregate, things fall apart.
