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.

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

As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.

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

The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

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

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.