Quotes

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.