Occupation: Author Birth: December 12, 1900 Death: December 20, 1994
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I ….
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet..
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor..
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit..
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced..
This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means t….
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation..
Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company ….
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art..
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth a….
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it..
The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sover….
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have some….
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him..
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service,….
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language ….
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought..
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glori….
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the su….
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the pa….
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible..