Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.