Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

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