We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

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

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.