No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.