Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

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.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.