Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

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

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

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

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.