No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered..

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the st….

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capaci….

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray.".

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it..

The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counsel….

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place..

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage..

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him..

One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one ch….

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith..

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have..

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up..

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….

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….

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired..

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers..

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….

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….

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him..