Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.