It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal stateme… - Henry Clay Trumbull

Here is where a great many professed disciples of Jesus fail of being real disciples. They have regularly enlisted, have put on their uniform, and there they stand before the recruiting office, with knapsacks and blankets on their backs, with muskets at "carry," marking time to the martial music — although some of them don't do even that; and there they have stood since their enlistment, never marching a rod.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.