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.

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

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

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

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.