All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

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.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

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

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.