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

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

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

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

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.

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.