A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”
I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.