Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.