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 know that many are so. God knows who they are.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

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

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.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

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

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

These boys talk more than a pack ofwomen.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.