Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

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.