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.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.

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.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.