Occupation: Preacher Birth: May 24, 1878 Death: October 5, 1969
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired..
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go wher….
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, t….
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers..
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings..
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it..
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young..
No one can be wrong with man and right with God..
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness ..
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it..
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power u….
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great..
Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, se….
He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that det….
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up..
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated chara….
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have..
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their ….
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, li….
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him..