You cannot be a leader and lose sight of those who are to be led.
The shortness of the day excuses no man from greatness of endeavour.
When a man thinks of nothing but his sins and failures he will have nothing else to think of.
Lots of people who talk of their lives as blue are only colour blind, they either are green or yellow.
He is only shortsighted who pronounces the world bad after looking in his own heart.
Many a man is waiting for an inspiration who would find success at once if he was not so afraid of a little perspiration.
XIII
THE PRIMARY RECONCILIATION
Men in the days of the great Teacher were as we are to-day, prone to compound for the neglect of duties near at hand by the adoration of spiritual delights far off. They talked about getting right with God while they continued to do wrong to men. The problem of the hypocrite who is so thrilled with the delights of heaven that he scorns earthly duties and decencies is not a new one.
How easy it is to substitute syllogisms for service, to think that we do our duty by describing it, so to exhaust oneself in pleasant and seductive dreams of a distant heaven that we have no power left to apply to the problems of a needy present-day world.