God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.