You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.