Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

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

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love.