The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

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

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

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

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