“Rather as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way:

in great endurance; 

in troubles, hardships and distresses;

in beatings, imprisonments and riots;

in hard work 

sleepless nights 

and hunger; 

in purity, understanding, patience and kindness;

in the Holy Spirit 

and in sincere love; 

in truthful speech 

and in the power of God; 

with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

through glory and dishonor,

bad report and good report;

genuine, yet regarded as impostors;

known, yet regarded as unknown;

dying, and yet we live on;

beaten, and yet not killed;

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;

poor, yet making many rich;

having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”  - II Corinthians 6:4-10

“There is our first faith: that simple faith by which, having nothing, we become possessors of all things.” - CH Spurgeon