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

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

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

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

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

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.