It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.