Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
Come, live with me and you'll know me.
Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.