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

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side the "unsearchable riches of Christ" are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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