Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

One of the noblest words in our language is grace, defined as unearned blessing. We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.