The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

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."

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

All known existence points beyond itself.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.