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.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.