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.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

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.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.

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

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