God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.