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.

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

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

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.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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