Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil..

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between ….

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth..

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….

Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hop….

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….

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 ….

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant….

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and….

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

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate plea….

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

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 ma….

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows ….

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in soc….

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

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure..

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

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

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good….

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime..