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 idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

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

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.