Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.