The reason why those who are converted to Christ often make so poor a work of rectifying their old habits, is that they lay down their work in the ve… - Horace Bushnell

What we want, above all things, in this age is heartiness and holy simplicity; men who justify the holy impulse of grace in their hearts, and do not keep it back by artificial clogs of prudence and false fear, or the sham pretences of fastidiousness and artificial delicacy. These are they whom God will make His witnesses in all ages. They dare to be holy, dare just as readily to be singular. What God puts in them, that they accept; and when He puts a song, they sing it. They know Christ inwardly, and therefore stand for Him outwardly. They endure hardships. They fight a fight. And these are the souls, my brethren, who will stand before God accepted.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.