“In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.”

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”

“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.”

“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.”

“Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.”

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”

“When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better but we will not resent life any longer.”

“In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.”

“Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.”

“So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.”