Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.