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

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

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.

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

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.