Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.