The Terrible Importance Of This Life Is

I Thank You For My Friends, For Those Who Understand Me Better Than I Understand Myself. For Those Who Know Me At My Worst, And Still Like Me. For Those Who Have Forgiven Me When I Had No Right To Expect To Be Forgiven. Help Me To Be As True To My Friends As I Would Wish Them To Be To Me.

The Greatest Thing Is A Life Of Obedience In The Routine Things Of Everyday Life. No Amount Of Fine Feeling Can Take The Place Of Faithful Doing.

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.

We Reverence God And We Hallow God's Name When Our Life Is Such That It Brings Honor To God And Attracts Others To 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.