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.

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.

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.

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.

Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.-RVM

Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise

In education, parody is obsolete.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

It's really the best time to be a woman. And instead it can be an advantage. Think about what you can bring to the table that what you have to offer that makes you unique.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.