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

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

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

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.