“There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.”
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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above 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.
