Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it—a desire which is immediate and irres… - Richard Salter Storrs

Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres — and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.