Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together." Hebrews 10:24—25

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

One of the most subtle burdens God ever put on us as saints is the burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of the souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in

Vicarious intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

I am because we are.

As human beings, we are capable of creating a paradise, and making each other's lives better by our own hands. Yes, yes, yes—this is possible.

They should be encouraged to bring all of who they are and what they know into each class. By welcoming the whole student into our classes, unfamiliar aspects of who they are and what they care about suddenly come into view. What are the heartfelt questions they struggle with? Are they too scared to acknowledge the hopes and aspirations they harbor for their lives and for this world?

Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.