I ask a lot of those who follow Me, but I ask little of those who do not.[to Kafni]
Hospitality isn’t only for people who own homes.
Honoring your parents is one of the highest social and spiritual obligations, but it is not higher than following God. Whoever loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Greater love has no one than this. That someone lay down his life for his friends.
God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, He sent Him to save it through Him.[to Nicodemus]
Give generously without thinking about it. Do not do it for show, to impress others, don’t even congratulate yourself in private. Give in humility.
Everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment. So if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Everyone has wandered through the wilderness at some point.
Everyone has a much larger job than just their trade.
Even though you are children, and the elders in your life have lived longer, many times, adults need the faith of children. And if you hold on to this faith, really tightly, someday soon you will understand all of what I am saying to you.
Even the finest stonemasonry and the sturdiest cedar planks eventually relent under the assault of weather, war and time itself.[to Thaddeus]