Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous t… - Reinhold Niebuhr

...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.

The church has lost the chance of becoming the unifying element in our American society. It is not anticipating any facts. It is merely catching up very slowly to the new social facts created by economic and other forces. The American melting pot is doing its work. The churches merely represent various European cultures, lost in the amalgam of American life and maintaining a separate existence only in religion.

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.