It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

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