I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god. That's much more dangerous than when people don't believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they're not dangerous.

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.