If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged."

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.