The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.