Occupation: Theologian Birth: June 21, 1892 Death: June 1, 1971
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 th….
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….
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful ….
I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion..
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone..
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends..
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day….
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as ….
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a….
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be u….
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that give….
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will..
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the ….
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational con….
Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right..
The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social priv….
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 cynic….
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..
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious..
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy..
In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a tra….