Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.