The Root of the Righteous

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man' s character.

“The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”

A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in or…

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test…

As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good…

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world' s worst…

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation. Such were Moses and Dav…

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

Christians don' t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.