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

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.

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.

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.

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

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

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

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.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

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.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Words are just words

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

Business must be a force for good in the world.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.