The Pretensions Of Final Truth Are Always

Reason Tends To Check Selfish Impulses And To Grant The Satisfaction Of Legitimate Impulses In Others.

Our Age Knows Nothing But Reaction, And Leaps From One Extreme To Another.

Nationalism: One Of The Effective Ways In Which The Modern Man Escapes Life's Ethical Problems.

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. This Prayer Was First Printed In A Monthly Bulletin Of The Federal Council Of Churches And Has Become Enormously Popular. It Has Been Circulated In Millions Of Copies.

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.