Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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.