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.

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.

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.

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

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

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.