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

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

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.

We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

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