Human religion is always like this: it begins by serving God and it ends by killing people. - Witness Lee

To be slow is to miss a present opportunity, whereas to be patient is to anticipate a coming opportunity.

Some have criticized Paul for not trying to reform the social system. We realize, however, that Paul used the worst social system as an opportunity to charge the believers to live a Jesusly human life in the midst of it. If the saints could live such a human life in the worst social system imaginable, then we should be able to live such a life in any kind of circumstances today. (...) by the divine life we can have the highest human living even in the worst social system!

The second generation did not pass through as much as the first generation did, but they received the benefit of what the first generation experienced.