The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

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.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.