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 more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

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

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

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.