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.

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

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

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

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

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