Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.