There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

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.