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.

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 cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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.

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.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

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

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

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