When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

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 find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

We grow small trying to be great.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.