The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

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

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

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.

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

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

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