In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.