Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.