Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.