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

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.