I do not believe the world is soon to be destroyed by the Atom Bomb. I believe it will continue for centuries and will become a better world than that of the past. From Biblical days to the present, world...
While both experience and formal education have conditioned me to modern logic, I find it insufficient to sustain me in the many opinions, conclusions, and practical decisions incident in normal living. So faith became a necessary and comforting complement to...
The most exciting discovery of my life is that prayer works. I have proved it to myself—not once, but many times. My key to make it work is a complete reliance on God. A complete surrender of will. This gives...
I grew up tacitly accepting, without much thought, certain old maxims: honesty is the best policy; when you have given your word, you must keep it; you should treat the other fellow as you would, yourself, be treated. Forty-four years...
One evening last summer, I was sitting in our garden with my wife and our two sons. The boys were home on leave for a weekend. It was to be the last one for a long time for the older...
“We are all at the mercy of a falling tile,” Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder’s Ides of March. None of us knows at what hour something we may love may suffer some terrible blow by a force we...
If I could sum up what I believe in a single sentence, I think it would this: I believe in the future. This is the star which has guided my life, and I have tried to instill this faith in...
At first I believed what I was taught: that the world steadily was becoming a better and better place, that progress was the law of life. Education and religion were the engines of improvement. When people became better educated and...
There are several beliefs to which I hold strongly and by which my life is guided. They are interwoven with each other, and they have grown and changed over the more than half century in which I’ve lived. First, I...
