Thoughts

How beautifully did Jesus unite intense sensibility to sin — along with tenderest compassion for the sinner...

If the Christian precept of FORGIVENESS be estimated by the magnitude of the injury forgiven, then these words of Jesus present to our view a forgiveness of an inconceivable and unparalleled injury...

Jesus never spoke one unnecessarily harsh or severe word. The giving of a wise reproof requires much Christian prudence and delicate discretion...

Jesus literally "walked with God." As man, He was deeply conscious of the spiritual necessities of man; and as the God-man Mediator, He felt the need of looking up to the Strong One for strength...

Many a death-struggle has been made — to save a friend. A dying Savior gathers up His expiring breath — to plead for His foes!...

In great minds, there is often a beautiful blending of majesty and humility, magnanimity and lowliness. The mightiest and holiest of all Beings that ever trod our world — was the meekest of all...

How truly did the Son of God identify Himself with the humanity and the curse He came to ransom and remove...

Each has some appointed work to perform, some little niche in the spiritual temple to occupy. Yours may be no splendid services, no flaming or brilliant actions to blaze and dazzle in the eye of man...

You are settled by having an object that controls your heart. Christ is that object ...

Forty days and forty nights enclosed with the devil in the wilderness...