Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.