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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.
Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.