We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.
Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?