Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.