Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

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.