When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Sometimes God demands radical measures when He wants to bring about radical results.

A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Why then did Abraham do it ? For God's sake, and (in complete identity with this) for his own sake. He did it for God's sake because God required this proof of his faith ; for his own sake he did it in order that he might furnish the proof.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.