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

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.

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

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.