'The balanced Christian life
The balanced Christian life
While the Christian life is firm and yielding in its integrity and uprightness — it is still beautiful in its love and gentleness . The unchangeable principles of uprightness, like mountain-crags, are covered over with tender vines, and with the sweet flowers of grace and charity.
True religion is never meant to dry up our life and make it cold, hard, and formal.
It is meant to bring out new beauty, and to clothe the soul in garments of loveliness.
It asks for the development of every power of body, mind, and spirit to the greatest possibility.
It demands the strongest motives for godliness. It demonstrates the finest examples.
Its ideal includes not only "whatever things are true , whatever things are just ," but also "whatever things are lovely ."