Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

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.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

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

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

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.