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

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

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

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

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.

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.