True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.