Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

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

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