It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

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

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

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

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

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 is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum