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

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.

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

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

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

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.

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.