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

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

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.

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

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.

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

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.