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

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.