The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.

The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

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

We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.

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