[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

We should die relying on grace alone

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.