Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

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.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

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

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