Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

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.

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.