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

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

Acquaint thyself with God.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].