If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.