All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

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.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

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.

Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.