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.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
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.
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
I’m not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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.
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Man’s capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man’s capacity for good makes democracy possible.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
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.
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.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.