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.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.

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

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

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.