The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

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.