The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.