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

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

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

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.