Guidance & Wisdom
A Christian must be different from other people. Time has not changed the essential difference between the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christ.
A consistent eccentricity is the only sane life. An enthusiastic religion is the perfection of common sense.
How many things we permit ourselves on the theory that life is great, would be most emphatically wrong on the theory that time was also great!
One of the chief reasons why life is so great is just that life is so short.
It is hard for a man to forget pictures which have been hanging in the galleries of his imagination all his life.
God is our Father, but God is our Judge. When we know that, our sin takes on a darker colouring entirely.
Great principles are always best and freshest when studied from the life, and it so happens that a circumstance in Paul’s life makes it peculiarly easy to act on this rule here.
The stages by which this transcendent standpoint is to be reached are now plainly before us. They are, the discovery of self and the discovery of Christ.
There is no middle way in religion—self or Christ. The quality of the selfishness—intellectual, literary, artistic—the fact that our self’s centre may be of a superior order of self, does nothing to destroy this grave distinction.
The man who is really concerned to live well must possess himself continually of the thought that he is not to live long.
As he grows in grace, he grows in isolation. He feels that God is detaching his life from all around it.
We are guilty for our past lives. We may be sorry for the past. But it is not enough that we are sorry.
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