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

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

No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

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.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.