History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.