No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.