The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with Augustine's earthly city and lost all claims to a higher sanction than the law of force and self-interest. Without justice, what is a great kingdom but a great robbery, magnum latrocinium?

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms