We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.
Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
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.
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church.
As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.
The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.
The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.
Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.
