What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

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

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.

Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now.

In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

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.

When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.