Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Do the truth quietly without display.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.