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.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

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

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

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.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?