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

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you