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

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.

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

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.