Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new t….

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance..

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package..

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts ….

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars….

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional s….

Always take a job that is too big for you..

Our power is not so much in us as through us..

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people..

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled..

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens….

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in huma….

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions..

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful..

When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That pers….

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free..

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality..

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - a….

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward..

What a testing of character adversity is..

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation..