"Too often, compassion is used to override our better judgment and approve of ungodly lifestyles. We tell ourselves that we don't witness about our faith because we fear offending someone; we are silent in the face of political and moral decline because we want to be thought of as nice and not judgmental. We don't want to let people know that the way into the kingdom is narrow and there is a cost to following Jesus." (p.17)

Chapter 7. (pp. 71-79)

"If anyone was entitled to relax, or seek refreshment, it was our holy Master. But he used his own time to pray. It is not that we are too busy to pray but that the flesh is still too insistent on satisfaction."

Chapter 7. (pp.67-70)

"Oh, for multitudes to be awed into an awareness that the Most High dwells still in the midst of his people!"

Chapter 6. (pp. 60-66)

"Imitation of Jesus Christ is needed. He was feared by the Pharisees whose mouths he stopped. But he was meek and lowly of heart to sinners, approachable by outcasts and children. Selflessness was displayed in his bearing. May God make it a leading feature in his ministers' comportment!"

Chapter 6. (pp. 57-59)

"Our Good Shepherd has become the model for under-shepherds. His great concern is the good of the sheep. A good shepherd gives himself to the sheep."

Chapter 5. (pp. 51-56)

"If the woman were anxious to yield to her God-given head in the home, and the man were ambitious to serve her comfort and welfare as being his own flesh, there would be no room for contention and strife."

Chapter 5. (pp. 47-50)

"By his moulding of human personality and his fashioning of the institution of marriage, the Potter has defined limits within which men and women may find marital satisfaction and happiness."

Chapter 4. (pp. 37-45)

"Christian liberty... does not suggest that you may do anything you wish with God's creation. But it teaches that there are things which you are free to enjoy and use as you serve the Lord."

Chapter 3. (pp. 31-36)

"Not one man has ever sacrificed for his Lord without being richly repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures lost, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet."

Chapter 2. (pp. 23-29)

"Bearing a cross is every Christian's daily, conscious selection of those options which please Christ, pain self, and aim at putting self to death."