Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. |
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. |
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. |
There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why. |
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . . |
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. |
When a man undergoes treatment from a doctor, he does not need to know the way in which the drug works on his body in order to be cured. There is a sense in which Christianity is like that. At the heart of Christianity there is a mystery, but it is not the mystery of intellectual appreciation; it, the mystery of redemption. |
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. |
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. |