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.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other

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