Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.

Remember, son, you're most afraid when you can think of no one but yourself.

I understand that you are angry. I'm angry too. But that does not justify your risking not only your own life but the life of your best friend as well to go back there! I didn't ask him to go. He wanted to go. He did it out of love for you, which ought to make you all the more ashamed!

And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.