God can dispense with us just as little as we can dispense with him. - Meister Eckhart

To serve God with fear is good; to serve Him out of love is better; but to fear and love Him together is best of all. To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.

for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Christ said: ‘Whoever leaves anything for my sake will receive again a hundredfold in return’ (Matt 19:29).