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..

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins..

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down..

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity..

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues..

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 hear….

We live in an anaesthetized society..

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you..

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer..

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….

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 civil….

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 ….

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam..

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness..

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising sou….

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed..

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy..

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph..

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 retir….