Ye are the salt of the earth:
but if the salt have lost his savor,
wherewith shall it be salted?
Matthew 5:13
All these things teach us that hermits and monks are
not in God’s plan. God’s people are the salt of the earth;
and salt, no
matter how good it is, is of no use if shut up in a box;
it must be
mingled with that which is to be preserved."
E.J. Waggoner