Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

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.

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

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

We can influence the future but not see it.