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

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

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

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.