“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a 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.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.