Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy..

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion..

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day….

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed..

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

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why ….

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible..

One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you e….

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

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible..

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 tra….

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command..

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others..

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions..

I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matte….

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be u….

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social priv….

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in socia….

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

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynic….

To be religious is not to feel, but to be..