Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.