The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

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

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.