Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.

It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.