Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

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

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

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.