Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

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.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.