...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.