Beautiful Thoughts Hardly Bring Us

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

Christianity Promises To Make Men Free; It Never Promises To Make Them Independent.

Let None Of Us Delude Himself By Supposing That Honesty Is Always The Best Policy. It Is Not.

Democracy Is Only An Experiment In Government, And It Has The Obvious Disadvantage Of Merely Counting Votes Instead Of Weighing Them.

Our Test Is Infallible. Whatever View Of Reality Deepens Our Sense Of The Tremendous Issues Of Life In The World Wherein We Move, Is For Us Nearer The Truth Than Any View Which Diminishes That Sense.