A Heart Full of Divine Love

A heart in every thought renewed

And full of love divine

Perfect and right and pure and good

A copy, Lord, of thine.

From Ritual to Repentance

Repentance is what makes religion more than ritual.

Some Things Can't Be Forced

The conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, is to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace. But to will to put it into ...

There But for the Grace of God Go I

As murder storywriters assume, and as most of us learn in experience, we have in us capacities for fury, fear, envy, greed, conceit, callousness, and ...

Reconciliation Changes Hearts

Integration forced some people to change their behavior. Reconciliation invites the changing of hearts.

The Worst Heart Trouble

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Satan at Our Door

It is startling to think that Satan can actually come into the heart of a man in such close touch with Jesus as Judas was. And more--he is cunningly trying ...

Living in the Hub

Sometimes I think of life as a big wagon wheel with many spokes. In the middle is the hub. Often in ministry, it looks like we are running around the ...

Bigheartedness Turned Small

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost ...

Desperately Wicked

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often ...