I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

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

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.