“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

1   LORD, you were favorable to your land;            you restored the fortunes of Jacob.  2   You forgave the iniquity of your people;            you pardoned all their sin. Selah  3   You withdrew all your wrath;            you turned from your hot anger.  4   Restore us again, O God of our salvation,            and put away your indignation toward us.  5   Will you be angry…

16“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,  17  ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;            we wailed, and you did not mourn.’  18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; 19the Son of…

30And why are we putting ourselves in danger every hour? 31I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you — a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32If with merely human hopes I fought with wild animals at Ephesus, what would I have gained by it? If…

1The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, 2Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns…

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out.”

“Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.”

“It’s easy to convince people that children need to learn the alphabet and numbers. . . . How do we help people to realize that what matters even more than the superimposition of adult symbols is how a person’s inner life finally puts together the alphabet and numbers of his outer life? What really matters…

1   The LORD is king, he is robed in majesty;            the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength.       He has established the world; it shall never be moved;  2        your throne is established from of old;            you are from everlasting. 3   The floods have lifted up, O LORD,            the floods have lifted up their voice;            the floods…