... that God could not have given Adam a greater gift than this one. All of creation pales in comparison. I love the way John Sullivan, pastor of the Broadmoor Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana put it. Speaking of his first date with his wife he said, "I used ... , "Dearest, why don't you say something?" He looked at the ground and said, "I think I've said too much as it is." Louis Evely, a French priest, has said, "Some women become widows on their wedding day." He did not mean widows in a literal sense, of ...
... don’t know which, that left her deaf and blind. At the age of six Helen was taught to communicate by Anne Sullivan. The first word that Anne signed into Hellen’s palm was the word “doll.” In her adult years, Keller went on ... thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.** “For my unconquerable soul.” So inspiring was Henley, that his good friend Robert Louis Stevenson based his one- legged character Long John Silver on Henley. And today you may have heard of the Invictus games, which are ...
The man sitting next to me on the plane had, of course, noticed my clerical dress, and, as always, there was a compulsive necessity on his part to get the record straight as far as his religious life was concerned. You know, it’s strange. I have never asked another man about his relationship with God, because I don’t have to. He tells me, as though I were some kind of a judge and he was testifying in my court. I have always had the secret suspicion that such persons are practicing what they are going to ...
