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

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

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 chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.