Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.