In happiness, we dare never forget that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who has restored our joy.

Cindy’s tragedy was that she was blind to the Christ from whom all her good gifts came.

Like me, like most Americans, the equation of wealth with happiness is so firmly rooted in her psyche that only a divine surgeon could dig it out.

The crowds, bored into silence, had left a vacuum in the tent that my little boy’s voice began to fill. He laughed unaware and uncaring that he alone laughed, deaf to everyone’s else silence.