Thoughts

The great problem you have to solve, Jesus has solved for you — to be “in the world, and yet not of it.”...

He that cannot fulfil and walk in what is simply his duty must be weak in everything. The greatness of any one is seen in the way in which he is able to meet all the claims on his time and temper...

The time we have lost, cannot be recalled; should we not then redeem and improve the little that remains?...

The ironical taunt of proud and censorious Pharisees formed the glory of Him who came, “not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance”...

What a common dictate of the fallen and regenerate heart to resent and recriminate! How alien to natural feeling ...

Let the image of the lowly Redeemer be ever in our mind’s eye. His example may well speak in silent impressiveness, bringing us down from our pedestal of pride...

We are apt to measure things by their size and not by their weight. We too often prefer the things which make the most show....

It is an affecting thing to see a great man in tears! "Jesus wept!" It was ever His delight to tread in the footsteps of sorrow...

Our moods are contagious, and they are swiftly contagious. Our words can act upon others like a bugle or they can act like a chilling, drizzling rain; so it is with our moods...

"Jesus", says a writer, "came from heaven on the wings of love." Love was the element in which He moved and walked. He sought to baptize the world afresh with it...