Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

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.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.