Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

Don't fear, just live right.

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.