The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.