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

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

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

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.