We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

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

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.