There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

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.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

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