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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.  
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. ...  
Forgiveness is the final form of love.   Forgiveness
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the co...  
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be c...  
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists co...  
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.  
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the...  
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclina...  
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore w...  
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore ...  
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any...  
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to anot...  
The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to end...  
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute ...  
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.  
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.