Not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.