Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, ‘I will make you fishers of men.’
To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one – God alone can do the other.
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Man’s wonder grows with his knowledge.
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth more than a ton of head learning.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.