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

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.