Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

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

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.