Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.
What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.
When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.