Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.