the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.