Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.