The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

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

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

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.