If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

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

The fanatic is dangerous.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.