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.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

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

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

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

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

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.