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 based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

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!

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.