Change What Cannot Be Accepted

When A Church Reaches Up Beyond Its Group And Tries To Enforce Its Standards Upon A Society That Doesn't Accept These Standards, And Perhaps For Good Reason, Perhaps For Bad Reason, But Anyway This Is The Problem We Face In Pluralistic Society, That Not Necessarily Every Standard That Every Church Tries To Enforce Upon The Society Is From The Society's Standpoint A Good Standard.

Religion, Declares The Modern Man, Is Consciousness Of Our Highest Social Values. Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth. True Religion Is A Profound Uneasiness About Our Highest Social Values.

Our Dreams Of A Pure Virtue Are Dissolved In A Situation In Which It Is Possible To Exercise The Virtue Of Responsibility Toward A Community Of Nations Only By Courting The Prospective Guilt Of The Atomic Bomb.

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. Grant Me The Patience With Changes That Take Time, Appreciation Of All That I Have, Tolerance Of Those With Different Struggles, And The Strength To Get Up And Try Again, One Day At A Time.

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.