From Jesus’ Sermon on the Mountain
“Do not judge, that you may not be judged. For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the measure that you mete will be meted out to you. And why do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours? How will you say to your brother “Let me take out the straw from your eye,” when all the time there is a beam in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother’s. Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
Encouragement to Prayer
“Ask, and your prayer shall be granted; search, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you. For he that asks receives, he that searches finds, and to him that knocks the door shall be opened. Who among you, when his son asks him for a loaf, will give him a stone, or when he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in Heaven give what is good to those that ask him!
The Golden Rule
“Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.
The Two Roads
“Go in by the small gate. Broad and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and those that go in by it are many; for small is the gate, and narrow the road, that leads to Life, and those that find it are few.”
—Matthew.
And I smiled to think God’s greatness flowed around our incompleteness,
Round our restlessness His rest.
—Elizabeth B. Browning.