We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.