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

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.