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

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

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

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."

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.