Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.