To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

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.

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

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