In deep humility, I am bold enough to record here some of the firm convictions I have acquired as student, citizen, and lawyer during a fairly active life of sixty-five years. I challenge each of my listeners to undergo this...
On the rare occasions when I personally have ventured to ask a representative, modern man what he believes, I’ve usually found that he’d had to think pretty hard before he can give any answer at all, and that then he...
I am getting along toward three score years and ten. I look about me and see many fine contemporaries, and I wonder if it is true that only the good die young. And if it is, what then must the...
The basis of what I believe is the Christian religion, in which I was brought up by my father, an Episcopal missionary bishop. Despite a much compromise and considerable doubt considering some of the orthodox features of my early training,...
I was born into a devout Christian family. To my grandparents, God was a personality particularly interested in Christians. To them, He was mostly concerned with good or evil behavior of man, and used threats of punishment to keep humans...
Basic to, and underlying all my beliefs, is my belief in God and the Bible, the only infallible guide for human conduct. Should I lose my belief in God, in Christ and the Bible, life would be meaningless, without further...
As my father lay dying of a heart attack, we asked if he had any final words for the family. He answered, “My life is my message.” In a very real sense, I can illustrate what I believe by talking...
My philosophy of life emerges out of a strong parental influence and family backgrounds in which high standards were unfailingly upheld. In such a climate were nurtured the dynamic stimulation toward an education, the concepts of higher moral integrity, and...
I believe that everyone has some experience of God, though no one can have all of him. That is, it seems to me that everyone has some compelling experience with an orderly universe: with stars in a systematic arrangement in...
