For you cannot, my brethren, you cannot make a compromise between the Gospel and the world. The Gospel tends upwards—Christ's pattern, Christ's words, Christ's person in glory,—these are its objects. The world tends downwards—self-indulgence, self-regard, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life,—these are its objects. And this is equally true of all times and states of society. You cannot secularize the Gospel so much, you cannot Christianize the world so much, as to make them approximate and, so to speak, clasp over each other. There must still be a marked difference between the man of the world and the man of God. The narrow path will not run into the broad one, nor the broad absorb the narrow. One will be steep and leading to life, the other easy and leading to death.

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