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

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?