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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
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.
The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
