The Terrible Importance Of This Life Is

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.

The Christian Is Called Upon To Be The Partner Of God In The Work Of The Conversion Of Men.

Pride Is The Ground In Which All The Other Sins Grow, And The Parent From Which All The Other Sins Come.

God Does Not Choose A Person For Ease And Comfort And Selfish Joy But For A Task That Will Take All That Head And Heart And Hand Can Bring To It. God Chooses A Man In Order To Use Him.

When We Accept Christ We Enter Into Three New Relationships: (1) We Enter Into A New Relationship With God. The Judge Becomes The Father; The Distant Becomes The Near; Strangeness Becomes Intimacy And Fear Becomes Love. (2) We Enter Into A New Relationship With Our Fellow Men. Hatred Becomes Love; Selfishness Becomes Service; And Bitterness Becomes Forgiveness. (3) We Enter Into A New Relationship With Ourselves. Weakness Becomes Strength; Frustration Becomes Achievement; And Tension Becomes Peace.