In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”