No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.