I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.