You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.