[The value and dignity of the individual] is threatened whenever it is assumed that individual desires, hopes and ideals can be fitted with frictionless harmony into the collective purposes of man. The individual is not discrete. He cannot find his fulfillment outside of the community; but he also cannot find fulfillment completely within society. In so far as he finds fulfillment within society he must abate his individual ambitions. He must 'die to self' if he would truly live. In so far as he finds fulfillment beyond every historical community he lives his life in painful tension with even the best community, sometimes achieving standards of conduct which defy the standards of the community with a resolute 'we must obey God rather than man.'

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 distingui…

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a …

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 distingui…

A few honest men are better than numbers.

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Thus the i…