History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

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