The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

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.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."