The leading symbol of our Christian faith is not an easy chair or a feather-bed: it is a Cross. If we would be His disciples, let us be prepared to live dangerously, to take up the Cross and carry it into the teeth of opposition.

God is at perfect liberty to waste us if He chooses.

When the fight seems fierce and you are tempted to be weary and disconsolate, remember that in the interest of His cause your Leader expects you to turn a glad face to the world— to rejoice and be exceeding glad!

I have shamed Thee; craven-hearted I have been Thy recreant knight; Own me yet, O Lord, albeit Weeping whilst I fight!

“Nay,” He said, “Wilt thou yet shame Me? Wilt thou shame thy knightly guise? I would have my angels wonder At thy gladsome eyes.”

Need’st thou pity, knight of Jesus? Pity for thy glorious hest? Oh, let God and men and angels See that thou are blest!

SUSO