Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

A hug delights and warms and charms, that must be why God gave us arms.

You can't give a hug without getting a hug.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

Never wait until tomorrow to hug someone you could hug today, because when you give one, you get one right back your way.

Lord, forgive me. You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy. Help me. Open my heart and mind so that I will love her as you have loved me.

Oh, that he should care so little about people whom God loved so much.

I've never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

We often do not yield ourselves to God in obedience to His commandment to love our fellow men with Christ's love. What if that love should flow out to all around, even to those who hate us? This would require much grace and cost us time and trouble and serious prayer.