Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

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

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.