Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

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.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

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

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.