A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

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

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.