Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!