Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

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

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.