 Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. |
| Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. |
| If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. |
| Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. |
| Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. |
| All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. |
| The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. |
| Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. |
| God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Topics: Courage |
| The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. |
| Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. |
| Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. |
| The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. |
| Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. |
| Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. |
| There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. |
| Forgiveness is the final form of love. |
| There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. |
| Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. |
| The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. |
