Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.