Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.

Life is a test, and a deciding factor of whether we pass or fail is the answer to the following question: "Are you going to stay positive in the face of your doubts, fears, and challenges?

Breathe and let be.

Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God, not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.