18 quotes
Remorse is easy enough, but repentance means love; and a soul that has lost her Lover has lost her own power of loving.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Man’s highest life does not consist in self-expression, but in self-sacrifice.
Christ in the Church (1911)
If a soul lives long enough on the plane of sensuality or of ambition, she finds that Christ is worth less than nothing there.
Christ in the Church (1911)
To each soul Christ comes, all trusting as a friend, and in each soul He is betrayed over and over again.
Christ in the Church (1911)
It is a good deal more fashionable, and considered a great deal more 'spiritual,' to stand outside creeds and churches than within them.
Christ in the Church (1911)
The Cross is the symbol of absolutely endless expansion; it is never content; it points for ever and ever to four indefinitely receding points.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Complacency is the one obstacle to progress, in finance, in art, in intellect, and in the things of the spirit.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Divine Truth always must be extreme—it must, so to speak, always overlap at both ends, just because it is Divine, and therefore much too big for this world.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Each soul is as great as the world, and in each soul there is room for all the tragedies of the world to be re-enacted, as every puddle is great enough to hold the sun.
Christ in the Church (1911)
To-day as in Bethlehem, the bourgeois sits at home and discusses the Census, while Shepherds and Kings adore in the Stable.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Religion...must at least touch the will; for however small our will may be, it is always large enough to be united to the Will of God.
Christ in the Church (1911)
If God be Truth, and God be Love, is it not absolutely inevitable that the Love of God should bring the Truth of God down to the level of the very simplest?
Christ in the Church (1911)
Real love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed; not, so to speak, to devour the beloved, to satisfy self with the beloved, but the exact contrary—to be devoured and to satisfy.
Christ in the Church (1911)
The whole of Nature exists on the principle of vicarious suffering; and to reject Christianity because of the doctrine of the Atonement is to reject Nature itself on the same account.
Christ in the Church (1911)
We all win from God exactly what we deserve. We all get from God exactly what we really want of Him.
Christ in the Church (1911)
The man who says, 'Unless I feel, I will not believe,' is as narrow and foolish as the man who says, 'Unless I understand, I will not believe.'
Christ in the Church (1911)
The moment a soul recognises that there may be a Joy in Pain which is absent from Pleasure, she has taken the first step towards the practical solution of the Problem of Pain.
Christ in the Church (1911)
Just as in social things the essential bourgeois is one who, being tolerably well off, is completely complacent with his position—unlike the lowest class which has no position to be complacent about, and the highest class which does not think about it at all either way; so in matters of mind. 'How hardly shall they who trust in riches,' says our Lord, 'enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.'
Christ in the Church (1911)