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

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.

Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

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

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.