We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

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.

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

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

All known existence points beyond itself.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.