God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
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 human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a s...
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.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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 until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until...
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting ga...
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love...
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great u...