We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.
Walter RauschenbuschThose influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.
Walter RauschenbuschEvery generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
Walter RauschenbuschTheologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.
Walter Rauschenbusch