An
inspiring example of the attitude of thankfulness to God in which Christ Jesus constantly abode is found in the story of the feeding of the multitude as recorded in the Gospel of Mark.
In
the ninth chapter of his Gospel Luke records Jesus' incisive reply to the one who said to him, "Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Persuasion
has often carried so much of self-will with it,—has often been so impregnated with the belief of personal desire and personal power,—that even its gentle use has sometimes been avoided when there is nothing which would have served a better purpose.
The
writer of the book of Hebrews, foreseeing the possibility of all true worshipers gaining the kingdom of heaven, admonished his readers in these words: "Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence.
A wise
writer has declared, "By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable.