It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

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. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.