We grow small trying to be great.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.