what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.