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.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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

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.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.