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

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

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

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

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.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.