All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.