David Given Schwarm

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man–Christ’s unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and…

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. the difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which…

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.