Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.