“Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

“Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. ”

“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.”

“You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.”

“Come and help to carry the tray down and we'll have breakfast. What a mercy I thought of bringing the breadknife.”

“If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.”