I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

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

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.