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.

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.

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.

Hurry always empties a soul.

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.