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.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.