So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes – the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Preaching is truth through personality.
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ’s relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ’s life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.
Joy in one’s work is the consummate tool.
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.