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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life ...

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

No man need stay the way he is.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

What a testing of character adversity is.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Always take a job that is too big for you.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.