A Quote for the Day

Salvation is not about how fast you learn in school, or how many bible verses you can recite in rote, or how much money you stashed in your bank accounts. It is about how far you stay in the Lord's side, in the best and worst periods of your life, without betraying him in order to satisfy your passions and ambitions.

What the rich have difficulty of doing, but the poor are forced by life circumstances to do, is this--surrendering one's future into the hands of God, and not on one's own personal power and resources. This is something the rich finds very difficult to understand; but the poor understands very well. This is the gift of poverty, the reason why it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for the rich to enter the Kingdom. Still God provides the needed graces to both, enough to bring them salvation should they respond with love to God and surrender to His Will.