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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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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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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."

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

"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."

"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."

"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."

"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."

"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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