The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.