The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

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

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.