If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.