God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.