Sentence Sermons

1920

Christ not diffused is Christ misused.

It is a solemn thing to say "tomorrow" when God says "today."

God's choicest plants often live in the shade.

A true Christian loves not the world yet loves all the world.

What your prayers are you will be.

God does not reveal what you yourself can discover.

We cannot trust God with too much or ourselves with too little.

Neutrality in religion is always cowardice.

Pray your pastor up and pay him up.

The present moment is divinely sent; the present duty is the Master's will.

You may know you're going down hill when your way is continually easy.

We can't all be apostles, but we can all be epistles.

The early church was characterized by poverty and power; the present is characterized by wealth and weakness.

Temptations that find us dwelling in God are to our faith like winds that more firmly root the tree.

A man may suffer without sinning, but he cannot sin without suffering.

Be sure of this: if you cannot sanctify your present lot, you could sanctify no other.

Is anything more pitiful than a life spent in thinking of nothing but self?

To deserve praise where none is obtained is better than to obtain it where none is deserved.

Live in Christ and you are in the suburbs of heaven.

Bolted food never unlocks its essences. Meditation is mental mastication.

A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts, a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses.

Though Satan builds a hedge about us, he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

The gospel professed may lift a man to heaven. Only the gospel possessed will bring him into heaven.

The gospel is perfect. It is a crime to add to it; treason to alter it; felony to take from it.

--The Appleton Daily Post, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 5, 1920, page 3.