The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.