Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

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.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.