You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves