The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

• Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• 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.
• 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.
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
• Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
• Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
• 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.