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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The example of this poor, dark-skinned man who turned the empire upside-down made a deep impression on the young Sadat. "I began to imitate him," he writes. "I took off all my clothes, covered myself from the waist down with an apron, made myself a spindle, and withdrew to a solitary nook on the roof of our house in Cairo.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .

Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two.

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?