Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

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.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .