Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.