The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud….

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power..

To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with ev….

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home..

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surfac….

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus….

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is real….

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and….

Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either s….

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe..

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fa….

Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His ….

Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affectio….

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in w….

In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the cr….

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appro….

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to ….

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn o….

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity..

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible..

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ..