Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. – Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
What a testing of character adversity is.
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier.
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.