[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil.