Occupation: Writer Birth: October 1, 1889 Death: August 29, 1970
Nothing is so strong as gentleness..
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 i….
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder..
What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you..
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis..
Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now..
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest..
Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind..
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul..
Love is the outreach of self toward completion..
In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together..
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority..
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow..
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 o….
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a ….
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. ….
The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable..
True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something..
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God….