Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
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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.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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