The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

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

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.