To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
