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

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.