What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
Brooke WestcottThere is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
Brooke WestcottThe mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke WestcottGreat occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
Brooke WestcottGreat occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Brooke WestcottIndeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
Brooke Westcott