Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.

In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.