I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what they imply on the part….

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried..

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul ….

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshake….

Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions; while much may be done where all….

So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. ….

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour..

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or th….

Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even….

Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely,….

A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less ….

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our ment….

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider ….

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness..

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her..

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do ….

Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They….

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fell….

Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with ….

Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them. And they are like ch….

If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual….