It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.