It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

So we do not have the strength we should have, and Jesus' commandments become overwhelmingly burdensome to us. In fact, many Christians cannot even believe he actually intended for us to carry them out. So what is the result? His teachings are treated as a mere ideal, one that we may better ourselves by aiming for but know we are bound to fall glaringly short of.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

I had become a "believer," but I had no idea what it means to be a follower. People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.