The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.