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

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

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.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

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.

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.