The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

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