Humor Is A Prelude To Faith And

Nothing That Is Worth Doing Can Be Achieved In Our Lifetime; Therefore We Must Be Saved By Hope. Nothing Which Is True Or Beautiful Or Good Makes Complete Sense In Any Immediate Context Of History; Therefore We Must Be Saved By Faith. Nothing We Do, However Virtuous, Can Be Accomplished Alone; Therefore We Must Be Saved By Love. No Virtuous Act Is Quite As Virtuous From The Standpoint Of Our Friend Or Foe As It Is From Our Standpoint. Therefore We Must Be Saved By The Final Form Of Love Which Is Forgiveness.

While It Is Possible For Intelligence To Increase The Range Of Benevolent Impulse, And Thus Prompt A Human Being To Consider The Needs And Rights Of Other Than Those To Whom He Is Bound By Organic And Physical Relationship, There Are Definite Limits In The Capacity Of Ordinary Mortals Which Makes It Impossible For Them To Grant To Others What They Claim For Themselves.

The Churches That Are Most Obviously Democratic Are Most Obviously Given To Race Prejudice. I Mean The Churches That Have Absolute Congregational Control.

Humour Is, In Fact, A Prelude To Faith; And Laughter Is The Beginning Of Prayer … Laughter Is Swallowed Up In Prayer And Humour Is Fulfilled By Faith.

Politics Deals With A Common-sense Approach To The Imponderables Of History, That I Think Are Obscured By A Certain Kind Of Rationalism.