You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.