He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.