We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.