“It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.”

“The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.”

“We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can’t smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.”

“The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.”

“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.”

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”