Religion Fails If It Cannot Speak To

We Have A Duty To Encourage One Another. Many A Time A Word Of Praise Or Thanks Or Appreciation Or Cheer Has Kept A Man On His Feet. Blessed Is The Man Who Speaks Such A Word.

There Are Certain Things Which Are Lost By Being Kept And Saved By Being Used. Any Individual Talent Is Like That. If It Is Used, It Will Develop Into Something Still Greater. If Someone Refuses To Use It, In The End That Talent Will Be Lost. Supremely So, Life Is Like That.

We Are Trying Not So Much To Make God Listen To Us As To Make Ourselves Listen To Him; We Are Trying Not To Persuade God To Do What We Want, But To Find Out What He Wants Us To Do. It So Often Happens That In Prayer We Are Really Saying, 'thy Will Be Changed,' When We Ought To Be Saying, 'thy Will Be Done.' The First Object Of Prayer Is Not So Much To Speak To God As To Listen To Him.

For The Christian, Heaven Is Where Jesus Is. We Do Not Need To Speculate On What Heaven Will Be Like. It Is Enough To Know That We Will Be For Ever With Him.

The Christian Is A [person] Of Joy... A Gloomy Christian Is A Contradiction Of Terms, And Nothing In All Religious History Has Done Christianity More Harm Than Its Connection With Black Clothes And Long Faces.