There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

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

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

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