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The fanatic is dangerous.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
All known existence points beyond itself.
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
Men have never been individually self-sufficient.
Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.