Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.