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.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.