My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.