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Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.".

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson:.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.