To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.
Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.
All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?