It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.